Antique radio receivers retain a significant charm, and though they do not carry huge value today they were often extremely high quality items that would have represented a significant investment for ...

New York —In an earlier column I wrote about my very first industry junket, a trip to the Bahamas for a Philco-Ford sales convention. Philco also hosted my strangest. On Sunday evening, Oct. 1, 1973 I ...

When, in 1927, RCA evolved a new radio tube which needed no storagebattery, Philadelphia Storage Battery Co. (Philco), faced with disaster, decided to make radios itself. Under earnest President James ...

Even old Henry Ford, accustomed as he was to thinking big, would have been impressed by his grandson’s latest feat. In one of the largest industrial mergers in U.S. history, Ford Motor Co. last week ...

There’s nothing quite as retro-futuristic as the Philco Predicta television from the late 1950s. That bubbly, detached picture tube. The metal frame. It’s gorgeous. Unfortunately, the iconic TV set is ...

We take remote controls for granted. For most of us, they’ve existed from the day they were born. We knew how to use them before we could even begin to fathom how they work. But really, they’re ...

Pasadena-based designer Dave Schultze thought PC's were boring beige boxes, desperately in need of a design make-over. And so, he decided to create a personal computer of his own. Schultze calls the ...