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>>
>>
>> An interesting piece of history ...
>>
>>
>>
>> How car radios came to be...
>>
>> Aviation history too.
>> And my take away - free market capitalism works (The gov't did not
subsidize the start up nor help lower the price). And formal education
is over-rated.
>>
>> CAR TUNES
>>
>>
>>
>> Radios are so much a part of the driving experience, it seems like
cars have always had them. But they didn=92t. Here=92s the story.
>>
>>
>> SUNDOWN
>>
>>
>>
>> One evening in 1929 two young men named William Lear and Elmer
Wavering drove their girlfriends to a lookout point high above the
>>
>>
>> Mississippi River town of Quincy, Illinois, to watch the sunset. It
was a romantic night to be sure, but one of the women observed that it
would be even nicer if they could listen to music in the car.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lear and Wavering liked the idea. Both men had tinkered with radios '
Lear had served as a radio operator in the U. S. Navy during World War
I ' and it wasn=92t long before they were taking apart a home radio
and trying to get it to work in a car. But it wasn=92t as easy as it
sounds: automobiles have ignition switches, generators, spark plugs, and
other electrical equipment that generate noisy static interference,
making it nearly impossible to listen to the radio when the engine was
running.
>>
>>
>>
>> SIGNING ON
>>
>> One by one, Lear and Wavering identified and eliminated each source
of electrical interference. When they finally got their radio to work,
they took it to a radio convention in Chicago . There they met Paul
Galvin, owner of Galvin Manufacturing Corporation. He made a product
called a =93battery eliminator=94 a device that allowed battery-powered
radios to run on household AC current. But as more homes were wired for
electricity, more radio manufacturers made AC-powered radios. Galvin
needed a new product to manufacture. When he met Lear and Wavering at
the radio convention, he found it. He believed that mass-produced,
affordable car radios had the potential to become a huge business.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lear and Wavering set up shop in Galvin=92s factory, and when they
perfected their first radio, they installed it in his Studebaker. Then
Galvin went to a local banker to apply for a loan. Thinking it might
sweeten the deal, he had his men install a radio in the banker=92s
Packard. Good idea, but it didn=92t work ' half an hour after the
installation, the banker=92s Packard caught on fire. (They didn=92t get
the loan.) Galvin didn=92t give up. He drove his Studebaker nearly 800
miles to Atlantic City to show off the radio at the 1930 Radio
Manufacturers Association convention. Too broke to afford a booth, he
parked the car outside the convention hall and cranked up the radio so
that passing conventioneers could hear it. That idea worked ' he got
enough orders to put the radio into production.
>>
>>
>>
>> WHAT=92S IN A NAME
>>
>> That first production model was called the 5T71. Galvin decided he
needed to come up with something a little catchier. In those days many
companies in the phonograph and radio businesses used the suffix =93ola=94
for their names ' Radiola, Columbiola, and Victrola were three of the
biggest. Galvin decided to do the same thing, and since his radio was
intended for use in a motor vehicle, he decided to call it the Motorola.
>>
>>
>>
>> But even with the name change, the radio still had problems: When
Motorola went on sale in 1930, it cost about $110 uninstalled, at a time
when you could buy a brand-new car for $650, and the country was sliding
into the Great Depression. (By that measure, a radio for a new car would
cost about $3,000 today.) In 1930 it took two men several days to put in
a car radio ' the dashboard had to be taken apart so that the receiver
and a single speaker could be installed, and the ceiling had to be cut
open to install the antenna. These early radios ran on their own
batteries, not on the car battery, so holes had to be cut into the
floorboard to accommodate them. The installation manual had eight
complete diagrams and 28 pages of instructions.
>>
>>
>>
>> HIT THE ROAD
>>
>> Selling complicated car radios that cost 20 percent of the price of a
brand-new car wouldn=92t have been easy in the best of times, let alone
during the Great Depression ' Galvin lost money in 1930 and struggled
for a couple of years after that. But things picked up in 1933 when Ford
began offering Motorola's pre-installed at the factory. In 1934 they got
another boost when Galvin struck a deal with B. F. Goodrich tire company
to sell and install them in its chain of tire stores. By then the price
of the radio, installation included, had dropped to $55. The Motorola
car radio was off and running. (The name of the company would be
officially changed from Galvin Manufacturing to =93Motorola=94 in 1947.)
In the meantime, Galvin continued to develop new uses for car radios. In
1936, the same year that it introduced push-button tuning, it also
introduced the Motorola Police Cruiser, a standard car radio that was
factory preset to a single frequency to pick up police broadcasts. In
1940 he developed with the first handheld two-way radio ' the
Handie-Talkie ' for the U. S. Army.
>>
>>
>>
>> A lot of the communications technologies that we take for granted
today were born in Motorola labs in the years that followed World War
II. In 1947 they came out with the first television to sell under $200.
In 1956 the company introduced the world=92s first pager; in 1969 it
supplied the radio and television equipment that was used to televise
Neil Armstrong=92s first steps on the Moon. In 1973 it invented the
world=92s first handheld cellular phone. Today Motorola is one of the
second-largest cell phone manufacturer in the world. And it all started
with the car radio.
>>
>>
>>
>> WHATEVER HAPPENED TO=85.
>>
>> The two men who installed the first radio in Paul Galvin=92s car,
Elmer Wavering and William Lear, ended up taking very different paths in
life. Wavering stayed with Motorola. In the 1950=92s he helped change
the automobile experience again when he developed the first automotive
alternator, replacing inefficient and unreliable generators. The
invention lead to such luxuries as power windows, power seats, and,
eventually, air-conditioning.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lear also continued inventing. He holds more than 150 patents.
Remember eight-track tape players? Lear invented that. But what he=92s
really famous for are his contributions to the field of aviation. He
invented radio direction finders for planes, aided in the invention of
the autopilot, designed the first fully automatic aircraft landing
system, and in 1963 introduced his most famous invention of all, the
Lear Jet, the world=92s first mass-produced, affordable business jet.
(Not bad for a guy who dropped out of school after the eighth grade.)
>>
>>
>>
>> Some of us have been fortunate to have met both of these gentlemen
and they were - gentlemen.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> It is time for everyone to accept responsibility for their own
actions and stop waiting for someone else to take the blame & come to
your rescue!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> No virus found in this message.
>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
01/13/12
>>
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Thanks for all the info guys
Gives me a project to play with while it is to cold to fly
DR
Read this topic online here:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=363786#363786
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Thanks Herb!
Very interesting story!
Jan
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[mailto:owner-yak-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Herb Coussons
Sent: zaterdag 14 januari 2012 18:18
Subject: Yak-List: Fwd: History Of Car Radios
An interesting piece of history ...
How car radios came to be...
Aviation history too.
And my take away - free market capitalism works (The gov't did not subsidize
the start up nor help lower the price). And formal education is over-rated.
CAR TUNES
Radios are so much a part of the driving experience, it seems like cars have
always had them. But they didn't. Here's the story.
SUNDOWN
One evening in 1929 two young men named William Lear and Elmer Wavering
drove their girlfriends to a lookout point high above the
Mississippi River town of Quincy, Illinois, to watch the sunset. It was a
romantic night to be sure, but one of the women observed that it would be
even nicer if they could listen to music in the car.
Lear and Wavering liked the idea. Both men had tinkered with radios - Lear
had served as a radio operator in the U. S. Navy during World War I - and it
wasn't long before they were taking apart a home radio and trying to get it
to work in a car. But it wasn't as easy as it sounds: automobiles have
ignition switches, generators, spark plugs, and other electrical equipment
that generate noisy static interference, making it nearly impossible to
listen to the radio when the engine was running.
SIGNING ON
One by one, Lear and Wavering identified and eliminated each source of
electrical interference. When they finally got their radio to work, they
took it to a radio convention in Chicago . There they met Paul Galvin, owner
of Galvin Manufacturing Corporation. He made a product called a "battery
eliminator" a device that allowed battery-powered radios to run on household
AC current. But as more homes were wired for electricity, more radio
manufacturers made AC-powered radios. Galvin needed a new product to
manufacture. When he met Lear and Wavering at the radio convention, he found
it. He believed that mass-produced, affordable car radios had the potential
to become a huge business.
Lear and Wavering set up shop in Galvin's factory, and when they perfected
their first radio, they installed it in his Studebaker. Then Galvin went to
a local banker to apply for a loan. Thinking it might sweeten the deal, he
had his men install a radio in the banker's Packard. Good idea, but it
didn't work - half an hour after the installation, the banker's Packard
caught on fire. (They didn't get the loan.) Galvin didn't give up. He drove
his Studebaker nearly 800 miles to Atlantic City to show off the radio at
the 1930 Radio Manufacturers Association convention. Too broke to afford a
booth, he parked the car outside the convention hall and cranked up the
radio so that passing conventioneers could hear it. That idea worked - he
got enough orders to put the radio into production.
WHAT'S IN A NAME
That first production model was called the 5T71. Galvin decided he needed to
come up with something a little catchier. In those days many companies in
the phonograph and radio businesses used the suffix "ola" for their names -
Radiola, Columbiola, and Victrola were three of the biggest. Galvin decided
to do the same thing, and since his radio was intended for use in a motor
vehicle, he decided to call it the Motorola.
But even with the name change, the radio still had problems: When Motorola
went on sale in 1930, it cost about $110 uninstalled, at a time when you
could buy a brand-new car for $650, and the country was sliding into the
Great Depression. (By that measure, a radio for a new car would cost about
$3,000 today.) In 1930 it took two men several days to put in a car radio -
the dashboard had to be taken apart so that the receiver and a single
speaker could be installed, and the ceiling had to be cut open to install
the antenna. These early radios ran on their own batteries, not on the car
battery, so holes had to be cut into the floorboard to accommodate them. The
installation manual had eight complete diagrams and 28 pages of
instructions.
HIT THE ROAD
Selling complicated car radios that cost 20 percent of the price of a
brand-new car wouldn't have been easy in the best of times, let alone during
the Great Depression - Galvin lost money in 1930 and struggled for a couple
of years after that. But things picked up in 1933 when Ford began offering
Motorola's pre-installed at the factory. In 1934 they got another boost when
Galvin struck a deal with B. F. Goodrich tire company to sell and install
them in its chain of tire stores. By then the price of the radio,
installation included, had dropped to $55. The Motorola car radio was off
and running. (The name of the company would be officially changed from
Galvin Manufacturing to "Motorola" in 1947.) In the meantime, Galvin
continued to develop new uses for car radios. In 1936, the same year that it
introduced push-button tuning, it also introduced the Motorola Police
Cruiser, a standard car radio that was factory preset to a single frequency
to pick up police broadcasts. In 1940 he developed with the first handheld
two-way radio - the Handie-Talkie - for the U. S. Army.
A lot of the communications technologies that we take for granted today were
born in Motorola labs in the years that followed World War II. In 1947 they
came out with the first television to sell under $200. In 1956 the company
introduced the world's first pager; in 1969 it supplied the radio and
television equipment that was used to televise Neil Armstrong's first steps
on the Moon. In 1973 it invented the world's first handheld cellular phone.
Today Motorola is one of the second-largest cell phone manufacturer in the
world. And it all started with the car radio.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO..
The two men who installed the first radio in Paul Galvin's car, Elmer
Wavering and William Lear, ended up taking very different paths in life.
Wavering stayed with Motorola. In the 1950's he helped change the automobile
experience again when he developed the first automotive alternator,
replacing inefficient and unreliable generators. The invention lead to such
luxuries as power windows, power seats, and, eventually, air-conditioning.
Lear also continued inventing. He holds more than 150 patents. Remember
eight-track tape players? Lear invented that. But what he's really famous
for are his contributions to the field of aviation. He invented radio
direction finders for planes, aided in the invention of the autopilot,
designed the first fully automatic aircraft landing system, and in 1963
introduced his most famous invention of all, the Lear Jet, the world's first
mass-produced, affordable business jet. (Not bad for a guy who dropped out
of school after the eighth grade.)
Some of us have been fortunate to have met both of these gentlemen and they
were - gentlemen.
It is time for everyone to accept responsibility for their own actions and
stop waiting for someone else to take the blame & come to your rescue!
_____
No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/>
01/13/12
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