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  Amperex of 79 Washington Street in Brooklyn, New York Amperex were acquired by the giant Dutch firm, Phillips in 1955 or so. Phillips continued to enlarge the transmitting valve plant in New York, but also used the Amperex name to distribute their line of Dutch made B9A valves, (ECC81 82 83) to feed the booming U.S. Hi-Fi market. and many classic American hifi brands such as Marantz, Fisher, Scott, amongst others, owe a large part of their quality sound to Amperex valves.    Amperex took a key role in developing the ECF82; E88CC and 7308 frame grid tubes in 1958....

  The foundations of Philips were laid in 1891 when Anton and Gerard Philips established Philips & Co. in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The company begun manufacturing carbon-filament lamps and by the turn of the century, had become one of the largest producers in Europe. By 1910, with 2,000 employees, Philips was the largest single employer in The Netherlands.  The very first factory (now being turned into the Philips Museum) specialised in making lightbulbs and other electro-technical equipment until the 1920s, when the company expanded into vacuum tube manufacturing.  Stimulated by the industrial revolution in Europe, Philips’ first research laboratory was...

1896 W. G. Pye and Co Ltd was founded in Cambridge by William George Pye, an employee of the Cavendish Laboratory, as a part time business making scientific instruments. 1914 By the outbreak of World War I, the company employed 40 people manufacturing instruments that were used for teaching and research. The war increased demand for such instruments and the War Office needed experimental thermionic valves. The manufacture of these components afforded the company the technical knowledge that it needed to develop the first "wireless" (as early radios were called) when the first UK broadcasts were made by the BBC in 1922....