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Saving History From The Dumpster! These pages are dedicated to preserving a historical record of broadcast equipment. Others are doing an excellent job in recording other aspects of the history of broadcasting. As we find them, we'll add links to them. This site consists of scanned manuals and catalogs of broadcast equipment. This page started in 2002 .In October 2005, the site was changed from hand coded HTML to a wiki. In June 2014, this was migrated to a new server and an updated wiki code set. In September 2015, the wiki was again moved to another server (a virtual private server at 1&1 running Centos). Because of severe issues with wiki spam, only registered users can edit the pages. If you have a scan you'd like posted, please mail it to me , and I'll post it. Table of Contents Saving History From The Dumpster! Broadcast Equipment Manuals [Historic Papers] [Photo Gallery|http://bh.hallikainen.org/gallery/] [Station Histories] Other Manual Archives Other Broadcast History Sites Television Cinema Amateur Radio Maritime Radio MilitaryRadio Museums Recording (audio, video, etc.) Telephone and Telegraph History Receiver History Computers, Calculators, Digital Electronics History Data Communications Transistors and Semiconductors Electricity Other Historic Sites Broadcast Equipment Manuals Accurate Sound Corporation - Supplier of tape recording equipment from various manufacturers. Advanced Research & Technology Altec Amalgamated Wireless (Australiasia) Ltd. (AWA)- Formed from Marconi and Telefunken interests before the First World War to resolve patent difficulties. Partly government owned, it provided Australia's coastal wireless services and overseas radio links. AWA had close links to RCA & Britsh Marconi. A lot of its domestic and professional products were closely patterned on RCA designs. American Electronic Laboratories (AEL) - Transmitter manufacturer in the 1970s. AmperexElectronicCorporation - Manufacuter of vacuum tubes Ampex manufactured audio and video tape recorders. Amperite time delay relays Anton Electronic Laboratories - Supplier of radiological monitors for civil defense. Broadcast stations ended up with these in their government supplied fallout shelters. Aphex Systems Limited Andrew Corporation Arrakis Systems, Inc Audio Arts ATI - Audio Technolgies Incorporated Auditron - Flyer for the AudioTron vacuum tube. About 1915-1916. Auditronics Autogram Bauer Electronics Corporation Belar Electronics Laboratory - Modulation monitors. http://www.belar.com Bell Telephone Laboratories Bext Bird Electronic Corporation - RF wattmeters, etc. Bosch - Robert Bosch Corporation, Video Equipment Division Broadcast Audio Broadcast Electronics Broadcast Television Systems Broadcast Tools Burk Technology Byer Industries - Australian post WWII manufacturer of tape and disc recording and replay equipment. California Microwave CBS Labs CCA Circuit Research Laboratories Coastcom Clear-Com Collins Radio , including Rockwell Collins Comtech Antenna Corporation Continental Electronics Consolidated Electronic Industries - (CEI) Australian Open Reel and Cartridge Tape Machine manufacturer Crown - Audio amplifiers, crossovers, etc. CSI Cutting Edge Technologies Dayton Industrial dbx DeltaElectronics - Manufacturer of broadcast test and other broadcast equipment Dolby Laboratories Dorrough Electronics - http://www.dorrough.com , audio processors, loudness meters. Dumont Eimac - Manufacturer of high power vacuum tubes Electronics Research, Inc. - FM antennae Energy-Onix - Tramsmitters Engineering Services - FM antennae ESE Federated Purchaser - Catalogue from a Wholesale house supplying independant Radio Repair Businesses. 1936 catalogue. Fidelipac - Audio tape cartridges and machines Frese and Kaping - The Audio Pilot GatesAir - Broadcast transmitters. See GatesAir web site , GatesRadioCompany , and Harris Corporation - Broadcast Division GatesRadioCompany - Manufacturer of broadcast equipment. See also Harris Corporation and GatesAir GeneralElectric GeneralRadio - Manufacturer of test equipment Gentner Hallikainen And Friends - Manufacturer of audio and telemetry equipment Harman Kardon Harris Corporation - Broadcast Division - See also GatesRadioCompany and http://www.broadcast.harris.com . Heathkit Hewlett Packard Hollyanne Howe Technology Hughey & Phillips IGM - Program automation Inovonics IRC - Passive components ITA ITC - International Tapetronics Corp - Cartridge Recorder/Players Jampro Antenna E F Johnson Langevin Larcan including TTC LPB Magnecord Machlett Laboratories - Manufacturer of vacuum tubes Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company Marantz Marti Electronics, Inc. - RPU, STL, and remote control McIntosh Audio power amplifiers McMartin Microcon - FM Composite Stereo Processor Microwave Radio Corporation Modulation Sciences MoseleyAssociatesInc - Manufacturer of remote control, STL, TRL, and other broadcast equipment. See http://www.moseleysb.com/mb/ Motorola Moulic Specialties Co. - Tape cartridge machines. Appears to be predecessor to Sonomag Corporation Mullard - Manufacturer of electronic valves Multronics - high power inductors and RF contactors National - Manufacturer of receivers NBC - NBC designed some of its own equipment. A small collection is detailed here. NemsClarke - Manufacturer of field strength meters and antenna monitors Neotek audio consoles Orban Otari magnetic tape recorders Pacific Recorders and Engineers Panasonic Philips Potomac Instruments Presto disk recording equipment Pultec QEI Radio Engineering Laboratories Radix RAMSA Raytheon Revox RCA Rust Industrial Company, Inc. Scala antennae Schafer Automation Scully Audio tape equipment SMC or Sonomag Corporation - Program automation Sparta Electronics Standard Electronics division of Radio Engineering Laboratories Standard Telephones & Cables. Australia Studer Sony Straight Wire Audio Symmetrix Tapecaster Technics (Panasonic) Telfax Phone remote mixers also sold by Marti and BE Texar division of Gentner TFT, Inc. (Time & Frequency Technology, Inc.) - Frequency and modulation monitors, remote control, EAS. Tepco FM translators Tektronix Thompson-CSF TTC 3M Trimax division of L M Ericsson Pty Ltd (Australia) - Manufacturer of transformers. United Transformer Corporation UREI Victoreen Instrument Company - Supplier of radiological monitors for civil defense. Broadcast stations ended up with these in their government supplied fallout shelters. Warehouse Sound Professional Products Group catalog. Warehouse Sound was based here in San Luis Obispo. They were located in an old railroad warehouse ("Railroad Square") and sold mail order home stereo equipment (and professional products). They were quite successful during the days of Fair Trade laws, where manufacturers were allowed to set the retail prices of their products. These were generally state laws and did not apply to interstate sales, which many mail order sales were. Warehouse Sound was sold a little before the disappearance of the Fair Trade Laws. This is the 1974 Professional Products catalog. It runs 610MB, so be patient! Another catalog is available here . Cliff Branch, one of the founders of Warehouse Sound, writes about it here Rolling Stone Article on Warehouse Sound WesternElectric and the Bell System Journals because they relate to broadcasting 1922-1983 and the history of communications. SBA Westinghouse Historic Papers Papers by the people who made broadcasting possible. A collection of papers on technology. Quite a few early papers on AM, FM, and TV. Photo Gallery Contributed photos of historic equipment and installations. Station Histories Contributed station histories and links to others. Other Manual Archives American Radio History - Extensive collection of catalogs an manuals back to 1933. Audio Sharing - An archive of audio equipment manuals including some used in broadcast and film. Australian Professional Audio Equipment - Originally the purpose of this page is to document professional...