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Raytheon Radio Tube Type 6H6G With Carton, by Raytheon, Massachusetts, 1934
Inventory Number: 37614
Number of documents: 2
Document Type: Miscellaneous Note
Document Heading: Inscription
Text:
"RAYTHEON / TRADE MARK / for / BETTER RECEPTION / RADIO TUBE / RAYTHEON / PRODUCTION CORPORATION / NEWTON, MASS. / CORP. 1934" printed on exterior surface of carton side. "6H6G / RAYTHEON / GH6G" printed on exterior surface of carton lid.
Document Type: Miscellaneous Note
Document Heading: Manufacturer Details
Text:
Raytheon was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1922 by Laurence K. Marshall, Vannevar Bush and Charles G. Smith, with the original intention of selling artificial coolants for home refrigerators. This failed and they instead decided to develop a new kind of gaseous tube that would allow radios for the first time to be plugged into a wall socket and operate on electricity rather than batteries. By 1925, they had succeeded and marketed this 'gaseous rectifier' under the name of Raytheon ('Ray' coming from 'rai', Old French for 'a beam of light', and 'theon' being Greek for 'from the gods'. By 1926, the company had made $1 million and was well on the road to success. The company still exists today as defence technology company still based in Massachusetts but now with over 80,000 employees worldwide and an annual revenue of over $80 billion.
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