Federal Telegraph Company

The Federal Telegraph Company was a United States manufacturing and communications company that played a pivotal role in the 20th century in the development of radio communications.

History

The company was founded in Palo Alto, California in 1909 by Cyril Frank Elwell, and was first known as the Poulsen Wireless Company, after licensing Valdemar Poulsen's arc transmitter for use in the United States. The company initially developed high-powered transmitters used for long distance radiotelegraph communication.[1] In 1911–13, Lee De Forest and two assistants worked at Federal Telegraph on the first vacuum tube amplifier and oscillator, which De Forest called the "Oscillaton" after his earlier Audion.

California Historical Landmark No. 836 at the corner of Channing and Emerson in Palo Alto, California at the original location of FTC laboratory

During World War One, the U.S. Navy purchased Federal Telegraph, but after the end of the war a displeased U.S. Congress ordered the Navy to return the company to its original owners.[2]

The company was acquired in August 1927 by the Mackay Companies, and was renamed the Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company (California).[3] Originally a separate entity within the Mackay Companies, when International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) purchased the Mackay Companies in 1928, Federal remained a component of the Mackay structure as a manufacturing entity.

In 1931, Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, convinced Federal Telegraph to donate an 80-ton magnet they had developed for a canceled project in China to his first cyclotron project on the campus of the University of California Berkeley. Lawrence's invention of the cyclotron was the basis of his being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1939.

In 1940, Sosthenes Behn moved Federal Telegraph under ITT directly so that its manufacturing capabilities could help ITT replace those in Europe that had been shut down because of the war and the Fall of France.[4]

In 1954, FTR changed its name from Federal Telegraph and Radio Corporation - an IT&T associate to Federal Telegraph and Radio Company - division of IT&T,[5] and its research division became the Federal Telecommunications Laboratories, both continuing as subsidiaries of ITT after World War II through at least the 1950s.

References

  1. ^ "The Federal Telegraph Co. of California and the Poulsen Arc Transmitter", History of Communications-electronics in the United States by Captain L. S. Howeth, 1963, pages 142-147.
  2. ^ "Federal Telegraph Co.", Moodys Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities (Volume 2, Part 2), 1922, pages 1507-1508.
  3. ^ "The Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company Communication System", Nature, October 25, 1941, pages 509-510.
  4. ^ Robert Sobel, ITT: The Management of Opportunity (Beard Books, 2000), pp. 102-104.
  5. ^ Compare copyright notices on F-5658[permanent dead link‍] (1953) and F-5604[permanent dead link‍] (1954) "Federal Power Triode" datasheets

Further reading

  • Cyril Frank Elwell - Pioneer of American and European Wireless Communications, Talking Pictures and founder of C.F. Elwell Limited 1922-1925 by Ian L. Sanders. Published by Castle Ridge Press, 2013. (Details the founding of Federal Telegraph and Telephone Company in Palo Alto, California by Elwell.)

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