[GreenKeys] Mystery Coils

[Ken Kinderman]

I hear it was because they were making car radios in the '30's. So they
picked up on the -ola suffix from other devices.. pianola, Radiola,
Victrola.

Ken
W2EWL


On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 4:16 PM Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

>     Who knows how Galvin came up with the name but _ola_ is from
> Latin and is used as a diminuitive. As a nick name it goes back
> to at least viola and Pianola, for a player piano. Possibly
> pianola was the inspiration for Victrola, a music making machine
> made by the Victor company. This is c.1890s. A very common suffix
> for mechanical music machines of various sorts. Motorola was used
> by Galvin for its line of automobile radios, among the first on
> the market if not the first. However the suffix ola predates
> electronics and maybe mechanics too.
>      I have lusted after a pair of BC-611s since I was a little
> kid. Maybe some day.
>
> On 3/27/2020 10:47 AM, Bruce Gentry via GreenKeys wrote:
> >
> > The name Motorola has an interesting history.? I think it's
> > first use was by a company that made electric winders for
> > spring driven phonographs- a MOTOR to wind your victrOLA.?
> > Later, Galvin manufacturing Co.?? sold entertainment radios,
> > especially for cars, labeled "Motorola, a product of Galvin
> > Manufacturing Co."? I do believe the name was changed in 1947.?
> > Here in Syracuse,? home of General Electric's Electronics
> > Park,? to call the low frequency tone squelch anything other
> > than "Channel Guard" could provoke a ribbing.?
> >
> > ?????? Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY
> >
> >
> > On 3/27/20 12:18 PM, Scott Johnson wrote:
> >> Galvin Mfg. became Motorola in 1947, if memory serves.  By the late
> >> thirties, almost everything was branded "Motorola", but the data plate
> would
> >> still say Galvin.
> >>
> >>
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