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help| Philco, the Philadelphia Storage Battery Company (formerly known as the Spencer Company and later the Helios Electric Company), was a pioneer in early battery, radio and television production as well as former employer of Philo Farnsworth, inventor of cathode ray tube television. For a time, during the 1930s Philco produced very sophisticated radio-phonographs in conjunction with RCA's Victrola... Read enhanced Wikipedia article |
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Philco
Philco's rise to the top of radio makers was an amazing feat. While other makers like Atwater-Kent, Zenith, RCA and many now forgotten others (Freshman Masterpiece, Fada, Grebe, etc) sold many battery-powered radios in the early 1920's, Philco only made batteries, "socket power" units and battery chargers. -
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Philco (footballer)
Halesson Tiago Barbosa Honorato, also known as Philco, is a Brazilian footballer from IguaƧu, Brazil born on February 4 1989 that currently plays for SC Braga. -
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The Philco Television Playhouse
The Philco Television Playhouse is a live television anthology series sponsored by Philco and telecast from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the NBC series was seen on Sundays from 9:00pm to 10:00pm. -
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Predicta
To properly restore a Predicta (as well as other Philco sets of the era), the PC board must be removed from the chassis. -
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David Broome
1980/1981 Olympia (London) on Philco -
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Ford Aerospace
1963 Ford Motor Company folds Aeronutronic into Philco, strengthening Ford Motor Company's overall participation in space and defense markets. -
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Bing Crosby
It would pay Crosby $30,000 per week to produce a recorded show every Wednesday sponsored by Philco. -
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KYW-TV
Philco engineers created much of the station's equipment, including cameras. -
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Color television
NBC made the first coast-to-coast color broadcast when it telecast the Tournament of Roses Parade on January 1 1954, with public demonstrations given across the United States on prototype color receivers by manufacturers RCA, General Electric, Philco, Raytheon, Hallicrafters, Hoffman, Pacific Mercury and others. -
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Eli Wallach
This is a reference to The Philco Television Playhouse, several episodes of which Wallach actually appeared on in 1955.
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