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Name:
Rogers-Majestic; Canada
(CDN)
Abbreviation:
rogerstube
Products:
tubes
Summary:
Rogers-Majestic, Toronto; Canada: Rogers founded first the Radio Company, Ltd. of Toronto in 1924, then Standard Radio Manufacturing Corporation in 1925 which he changed 1928 into Rogers Radio Tube Company, Ltd. This bacame later Rogers-Majestic and was bought 1946 by Philips.
Founded:
1924
History:
Edward Samuel (Tyne naming Samuels) Rogers founded the Rogers Radio Company, Ltd. of Toronto in 1924 - at the age of 24. Tyne page 349: "While on a trip to the United States in that same year, Rogers visited an American laboratory where he saw a small tube designed to be operated from ordinary household alternating currtent. When he went back to Toronto he took with him the Canadian patent rights to this tube."
It was Frederick S. McCullough who made this AC tube but it produced excessive hum. Rogers developped a better insulator for the heater and redesigned the heater to get lesser hum and produced this tube on August 26, 1925. Then he founded the Standard Radio Manufacturing Corporation in 1925 to manufacture radios using his AC-tubes called Type 32 - actually R32 and later also R30.
In 1928 Rogers was concentrating on the manufacture of tubes and he changed the name of his company to Rogers Radio Tube Company, Ltd. Later this company became the Rogers-Majestic Corporation. Rogers-Majestic was taken over by Philips in 1946 but Philips kept the Rogers-Majestic label.
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Tyne page 351: "Published information pertaining to Rogers' dates of manufacture and etablishment of companies is limited and conflicting. For ecxample, the brochure "Edward Samuel Rogers Collection" is a disservice to Rogers because of inaccuracies.
