RadioBanter - View Single Post - "Professional Engineer" Lennie Gets His "Professional" History Wrong

June 9th 05, 12:05 PM

wrote:
From: Fritz Wuehler on Jun 8, 2:44 pm

"K4YZ" wrote:

wrote:
from: K4YZ on Jun 6, 3:00 am

In 1930 Paul Galvin coined the company logo "Motorola."
Galvin
had gotten into making automobile radios.

Lots of "olas" in those days. Radiola, Audiola, Victrola.
Only Motorola survives.

Kinda like the "tron" and "istor" words.

The MOTOROLA logo
had become more common in the pre-WW2 electronics industry
than "Galvin."

There was no Motorola company then.

On an invite from the Army to observe radio use in manuever
exercises, Paul Galvin and a few high staff expressed their
thoughts that they could improve small-unit radio capability.
The Army invited them to try. The result was the SCR-536
"handie-talkie" which was contracted for in 1940.

I've seen them, better known as the BC-611.

Do any of them have the Motorola logo? Or do they say "Galvin"?

Noble did most of the design of the first
"walkie-talkie", the SCR-300/BC-1000 manpack transceiver that
operated at VHF, not HF. The first operational units of that
were delivered in 1943.

Do any of them have the Motorola logo? Or do they say "Galvin"?

Galvin Mfg also got into the little-publicized, but massive
quartz crystal unit fabrication during WW2, winding up as
the central "control point" for the efforts of up to 60 large
and small quartz crystal unit fabricators. Quartz crystal
unit
production had the second highest priority during WW2 in the
USA, second only to the Manhattan Project.

Above radar and proximity fuses?

Do any of those crystals have the Motorola logo? Or do they say
"Galvin"?

Galvin Manufacturing Co. changed its corporate title to
MOTOROLA in 1947. That was just pro forma action since the
MOTOROLA logo was now well known in the industry and had been
in existance for 17 years.

1947 is seven years after 1940.

You have to understand that Gonad the Librarian just doesn't
have anything worthwhile in electronics industry experience.

Ah, here we go, name calling and personal attack by Len. SOP