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Philco, (founded as Helios Electric Company, renamed Philadelphia Storage Battery Company) was a pioneer in battery, radio, and television production. In North America, it is a brand owned by Philips. In other markets, the brand is owned by Electrolux. In the early 1920s, Philco made storage batteries, "socket power" battery eliminator units, and battery chargers. With the invention of the rectifier tube, which made it practical to power radios by electrical outlets, in 1928, Philco decided to get into the booming radio business.〔http://www.philcoradio.com/history/hist2.htm〕 They followed other radio makers such as Atwater-Kent, Zenith Electronics, RCA (and the little-remembered Freshman Masterpiece, FADA Radio, AH Grebe, etc.) into the battery-powered radio business. By 1930, they were selling more radios than any other maker, a position they held for more than 20 years. Philco built many iconic radios and TV sets, including the classic cathedral-shaped wooden radio of the 1930s (aka the "Baby Grand"), and the very futuristic (in a 1950s sort of way) Predicta series of television receivers. Philo Farnsworth, who invented cathode ray tube television, worked at Philco for some time. ==Early history== Philco was founded in 1892 as Helios Electric Company.〔Mahon, Morgan E. ''A Flick of the Switch 1930–1950'' (Antiques Electronics Supply, 1990), p.117.〕 From its inception until 1904, the company manufactured carbon-arc lamps. As this line of business slowly foundered over the last decade of the 19th century, the firm experienced increasingly difficult times. As the Philadelphia Storage Battery Company, in 1906 it began making batteries for electric vehicles. They later supplied home charging batteries to the infant radio industry. The Philco brand name appeared in 1919. From 1920 to 1927, all radios were powered by storage batteries which were fairly expensive and often messy in the home. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Philco」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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