On 20 May 2009 at 18:54, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I'm unfamiliar with Automatic Electric. Did they
make home phones or
commercial?
For many years they made the phone equipment for GTE. Later, they
were known as GTE Automatic Electric, founded by one Almon B.
Strowger (he of the Strowger switch). Whatever's left of it is
probably owned by Lucent.
I used to have an AM (germanium) transistor radio made by them.
Steel chassis, transistors in sockets. Sadly, it was lost in an
accident.
--Chuck