Radio today (Apr-Dec 1939)

CONSOLIDATED Volume and Tone CONTROLS For Top Performance at Low Cost FIVE types of controls cover 90% of your replacement calls. Resistances range from 5,000 to 2,000,000 ohms. These units are built to the highest standards of quality based upon years of experience gained in engineering special units for special circuits. They are fully guaranteed. The five types cover units without switches, with or without intermediate tap — with SP-ST switch, with or without intermediate tap — and with DP-ST switch without intermediate tap. Choose the units for which you have the greatest call and maintain a stock of these individually packaged controls. The investment is surprisingly small. See them at your jobber's today/ 516 S. PEORIA ST. CHICAGO, ILL. Par Metal RPCKS CHASSIS PFinELS ACCESSORIES . Sound men everywhere are real"■ 4.u„t the appearance of mer ^nmarH-thePfiAnestqampHner I the world but .put ■* ™j Today? rnd-aPPaVaf musthave "^f-Tar'Metal equipment Grary°or Blackrippie finish, com ^Lt£ Sufec"urNohn39, cSX describing the i_-„^*;rtn«i nossible witn. * «** asking. Write Today. PAR-METAL PRODUCTS CORP. 35-25 41 ST STREET LONG ISLAND CITY. N. Y. Philo Farnsworth, v.p. in charge of research, Farnsworth Television and Radio Corp., soon starting production. Voge/ named V-P of Farnsworth E. A. Nicholas, Pres. of the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corp., announces the appointment of Ernest H. Vogel as Vice-President of the corporation, effective immediately. Mr. Vogel was connected with RCA from 1930 to 1936 in various advertising, sales and merchandising management capacities. He joined the General Electric Co. in 1936 and advanced to the position of manager of the Radio Sales Division .which he resigned to assume new responsibilities with the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corp. Mr. Vogel brings with him into his new capacity, a well-rounded administrative experience covering design, production, merchandising and sales, plus an excellent understanding of television, both technical and commercial, that should prove exceedingly valuable as television progresses. He has recently returned from an extended visit to the leading European capitals, principally London, where he made a personal study of the technical, manufacturing and commercial phases of television. Mr. Vogel will make his headquarters at the principal office of the corporation—3700 Pontiac Street (extended), Fort Wayne, Indiana. That World's Fair Cover by Alan Foster So much admiring attention was caused by Radio Today's March cover, showing the World's Fair trylon and perisphere, that we feel readers will be interested to know this was designed by the famous magazine cover artist, Alan Foster, of 3513 76th Street, Jackson Heights, N. Y. Mr. Foster has produced many striking cover designs for Colliers, Saturday Evening Post, Red Book, and Good Housekeeping. Robert Robins, secretary of Wald Radio & Television Laboratories, accepted the invitation of the FCC to discuss the Wald method of using the present broadcast band for television transmission. A FRANK TALK WITH RADIO MANUFACTURERS on the IMMEDIATE FUTURE of ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS -PIANOS, ORGANS and FRETTED INSTRUMENTS NO. 1 IN A SERIES RIGHT under the nose of the radio manufacturer, a one hundred million dollar industry is in the making. The Miessner principles of electronic control have opened up a totally new market for music in the home. Imagine a miniature piano capable of combining and surpassing the finest grand piano and largest organ, with far greater range of tone-power and timbre — with the added convenience of a fully-concealed radio and phonograph. This almost unbelievable development makes use of engineering and acoustic principles wellknown in radio. By every rule of right or reason, it should be a part of the radio industry, as naturally as the phonograph and tele So, radio is today facing TWO inevitables — electronic music and television. But there is a tremendous difference in what each requires of a manufacturer in terms of finance, development and distribution. And it is this difference that determines their profitableness now and for some time to come. Television still has problems that will tax the resources of any manufacturer. It can progress no faster than telecasting. But Electronic Music is here, today, with no problems, no handicaps. Furthermore, it has the great advantage of a sensational revival of the piano business, paralleling that of the phonograph. A manufacturer of electronic musical instruments does not have to cautiously feel his way — need not risk a penny. The development work has been done. A dozen factories are in production. Sales channels are already established and the public is buying. Unit sales are higher. Trade-ins are not a problem. Inventories never become obsolete. Cut-price competition is totally absent. We invite correspondence with radio manufacturers who are looking for Opportunity but keeping an eye on the balance sheet. We offer cooperation and protection under 40 patents already issued and others pending. 8.CV MANUFACTURERS LICENSED UNDER MIESSNER PATENTS Piano Manufacturers (listed alphabetically) Ansley Radio Co., Bronx Blvd. & 238th St., N. Y. City liulliransen Company, 816 N. Kedzie Ave., Chicago Hardman, Peck & Co., 33 W. 57th St., New York City Krakauer Bros., Cypress Ave. and 136th St., N. Y. City Packard Bell Iiadio Co., Los Angeles, Cal. Story & Clark Piano Co., 64 E. Jackson Blvd., Chicago Winter & Co., 849 B. 141st St., New York City Foreign August Forster Piano Fabrik, Germany Mason & Risch, Ltd., 642 King St., West Toronto 2, Canada Sherlock Manning Co., Clinton, Ontario Organ Manufacturers Everett Piano Co. (The Orgatron), South Haven, Mich. Sebastian Gundling & Sons, Lancaster, Pa. Fretted Instrument Manufacturers Epiphone, Inc., 142 W. 14th St., New York Manufacturers — For license data, write us direct Dealers — For sales franchise, write any of licensee's above APRIL. 1939 MIESSNER INVENTIONS, Inc. MILLBURNI • [NEW JERSEY 69