today we lost a Canadian icon; Ted Rogers Jr.
now may of you may not understand the depth of the rogers influence on todays wireless world...
his father, ted rogers sr :
In the early 1920s, radio transmitters and receivers ran on large and expensive batteries to provide the high voltages needed for the vacuum tubes used. Early attempts at producing a radio receiver to operate on household alternating current were unsuccessful, since tubes designed for the direct current supply from batteries were unsatisfactory when operated on 25- or 60-hertz alternating current. The batteries were also extremely large.
In April 1924 Ted Rogers Sr travelled to the United States and saw experimental AC receiving tubes at the laboratories of Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. He purchased the patent rights to the experimental alternating current tubes of Frederick S. McCullogh. After further development Rogers produced a design of vacuum tube that would operate on alternating current. By 1925 Rogers had introduced not only a complete radio receiver using the new tubes, but had also produced a "battery eliminator" (power supply) that could be used with other manufacturers receivers to eliminate the expensive batteries. By August 1925 the Rogers Batteryless radio was in commercial sales, the first radio receiver in the world to operate from household current (and thus the introduction of the radio into the home). At a time when a schoolteacher might earn $1000 per year, the top-of-the-line Rogers radio sold for $370. Rogers formed the company "Standard Radio Manufacturing" (later Rogers Vacuum Tube Company) to produce radio receivers using the new design of vacuum tubes."
one mans vision is now the Canadian face of communications to the world!
impressive really...the biggest wireless network in canada
5 tv stations
52 radio stations
theshoppingchannel
the blue jays baseball team
70 consumer and trade publications
260 video stores
250 communication stores including fido
cable company
rogers center and sportsnet
200 dealers
i know those of you who will still use me as your personal rogers whipping boy when your cell bill comes in..and i am ok with that...
No comments:
Post a Comment