Philco
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Philco is an American electronics manufacturer headquartered in Philadelphia. Philco was a pioneer in battery, radio, and television production. The company was purchased by Ford in 1961, and renamed
Philco produced Socket Power "A", "B", and "AB" Battery Eliminators, starting in August 1925. Model A-60 "A" Socket Power Battery Eliminator shown.
Philco Socket Power A & B Battery Eliminators – 1925 August brochure
Philco Model B-60 "B" Socket Power Battery Eliminator – August 1925
A Philco 90 "cathedral" style radio from 1931
Predicta
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The Philco Predicta is a black and white television chassis style, which was made in several cabinet models with 17” or 21” screens by the American company Philco from 1958 to 1960. The Predicta was m
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…Philco built many iconic radios and television sets, including the classic cathedral-shaped wooden radio of the 1930s (aka the "Baby Grand"), and the Predicta series of television receiver sets of the 1950s. Philo Farnsworth, credited for inventing the first fully functional all electronic television system…
Predicta from the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art
Philco Predicta from the collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Predicta model 4654 with “barber pole” stand from the collection of the Museum of the Moving Image, New York