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Bill Lear. William Powell Lear (June 26, 1902 – May 14, 1978) was an American inventor and businessman. He is best known for founding Learjet, a manufacturer of business jets. He also invented the battery eliminator for the B battery, and developed the car radio and the 8-track cartridge, an audio tape system. [1]
In 1924, Kelly's Motors in NSW, Australia, installed its first car radio. [3] [4] [5] In 1930, the American Galvin Manufacturing Corporation marketed a Motorola-branded radio receiver for $130. [6] It was expensive: the contemporary Ford Model A cost $540.
Car phone. Motorola Car Telephone Model TLD-1100, 1964. AEG 4015C telephone for the German B network c. 1979. A car phone is a mobile radio telephone specifically designed for and fitted into an automobile . This service originated with the Bell System and was first used in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, on June 17, 1946.
History of radio. The early history of radio is the history of technology that produces and uses radio instruments that use radio waves. Within the timeline of radio, many people contributed theory and inventions in what became radio. Radio development began as "wireless telegraphy". Later radio history increasingly involves matters of ...
Marconi was born as Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi [11] [12] in Palazzo Marescalchi in Bologna on 25 April 1874, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi (an Italian aristocratic landowner from Porretta Terme) and his Irish wife Annie Jameson (daughter of Andrew Jameson of Daphne Castle in County Wexford, Ireland, and granddaughter of John Jameson, the Scottish founder of whiskey distillers ...
Radio-controlled car. For miniature car replicas or toys, see Model car. Radio-controlled cars, or RC cars for short, [1] are miniature model cars, vans, buses, trucks or buggies that can be controlled from a distance using a specialized transmitter or remote. The term "RC" has been used to mean both "remote controlled" and "radio-controlled".
Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 [2] – February 1, 1954 [3]) was an American electrical engineer and inventor, who developed FM ( frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. He held 42 patents and received numerous awards, including the first Medal of Honor awarded by the Institute of Radio Engineers (now ...
Hiram Percy Maxim (September 2, 1869 – February 17, 1936) was an American radio pioneer and inventor, and co-founder (with Clarence D. Tuska) of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). Hiram Percy Maxim is credited with inventing and selling the first commercially successful firearm silencer, and also with developing mufflers for internal ...