Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and
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information and 247,064 images on early companies, their products and the
people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and
manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of
information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the
people who designed and built them.
1923 Introduction of the Gecophone crystal detector radio set no. 1.[1]
1930 Advert for a 3 valve, all-electric GECoPhone radio operated by a.c. mains; price included Osram valves[2].
1936 Demonstration of GEC television sets at Wembley receiving signals from the BBC transmitter at Alexandra Palace; the sets could receive both the 25 frames/s and the 50 frames/s signals that the BBC transmitted [3]. Started production of cathode ray tubes.
1939 Competition in radios continued to depress prices[4].
1960 A new company was formed in conjunction with Pillar Holdings to extend the system of Piped Television that it owned in South Wales; the company would be called General Piped Television Ltd; GEC had a minority interest[5]. GEC did preparatory research for the company and manufactured the equipment. Pillar agreed not to sell televisions outside Wales.
