The Radio-Phonograph Division TAE Inc. graduate M.XIV- 7
Splitdorf Radio Company was purchased order give TAE Inc." Their striking wooden cabinets and impressive
bulk added their cost, and the top the line sold for more
than $1000. These products were pitched the high end
of the market and were intended "the Steinway the
Radio business.I. invented
a pick-up that could play both hill-and-dale and laterally-cut
records and these were installed the Edisonic line of
phonographs. The promotional material
emphasized Edison's pioneering role the technological
development radio and immodestly claimed that was his
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research that made all possible.
In reality, TAE Inc.
access the RCA pool radio patents.1® Theodore Edison was
put charge the development project.'1
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1 Theodore was talented engineer who had been
instrumental the development Edison phonograph with
electromagnetic rather than acoustic reproduction. (once
the Amusement Phonograph Division) planned market radio
receiver and also Edisonic radio-phonograph combination,
beginning 1928.,
Theodore was well qualified for the task, and his brother
recalls that Theodore, the same way his father, worked
day and night produce the Edison radio remarkably short
time. Naturally they were advertised the highest stage
of sound recreation with superior tonal quality, "The New
Voice the Skies" offered the kind quality that had become
synonymous with the Edison trademark. brought out its radio line with the
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