As the iconic Bell Labs marks 100 years in 2025 as a research arm of former communications giants AT&T and Bell Telephone System, it has a historic, corporate tie-in to the Lehigh Valley: Allentown’s ...
In the U. S. two highly important manufacturers of electrical equipment are the General Electric Co. and the Western Electric Co.† Both apply the far-reaching scientific discoveries relative to ...
The business of the Western. Electric Co. has long consisted in manufacturing telephone equipment for the Bell telephone system and other clients, and making other electrical supplies. The latter ...
An alternating current triode. A 5-pin plastic base with domed envelope. Stamped: “Western Electric / Made in U.S.A. / 244-A”. Donor’s card reads: “Triode made by the Western Electric Company in 1959.