THE GREAT MULLARD MAGIC BLOG — antenna

Don't you just love this American advert from 1951, even then just like now you could buy a TV antenna from Tesco!! The British store Tesco however, was founded by Jack Cohen, the son of Jewish migrants from Poland in 1919 when he began to sell war-surplus groceries from a stall at Well Street Market, Hackney in the East End of London.   The Tesco brand name first appeared in 1924 after Jack Cohen bought a shipment of tea from Thomas Edward Stockwell. He made new labels using the initials of the supplier's name (TES), and the first two letters of his...

We hear lots of chuffering about  magnetic loops - "My Mazzoni is bigger than your Wellbrook!"  Then there's the stealth aerial camp of thought. However, in 1926 they had the right idea, just look at these ideas for aerials or antennae if you prefer: -