Posted 5 years ago
dav2no1
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1951 Capehart TV Technician's Guide
Approximately 6 1/2" x 4 1/4"
March 1951 First Edition
Price $0.10
TV technicians guide. Has instructions for tuning your TV, etc.
"Capehart Corp.; Fort Wayne, Indiana: Trade name Amperion. Founded 1927, went into bankrupty in march 1939 and was taken over by Farnsworth Television & Radio Corp. Farnsworth kept using the trade name Capehart for some products and later changed even its name to Capehart-Farnsworth Television & Radio Corp."
Dave, is this the same CAPEHART that also made the now rather infamous automatic 78RPM record changers (that also flipped the records) and mechanical bridge tables that dealt their own cards?? (both those would have been earlier than TV sets, if so)
Oops, I answered my own question -- it IS apparently the same as the record-changer (the AMPERION you mention) though no doubt before TV sets. My BAD in that I got the bridge table wrong, the HAMMOND Company of Chicago made those. (also clocks and electric organs)
Here's the record changer -- can you imagine such a contraption banging fragile shellac discs around?? <lol>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptwvMDUJUcs