Welcome to September! The Hagley Library is starting off the month with some highlights from the September, 1931 issue of RCA’s Good News about RCA Radiotrons magazine. This publication was issued by RCA and distributed to dealers and service shops that sold Radiotron vacuum tubes to help them promote and sell the product to the public.
RCA Radiotron was a subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). Prior to its formation in 1930, RCA had no facilities for manufacturing its own vacuum tubes for its popular line of radios, and instead acted only as distributing agent for tubes made for the company by other large manufacturers, particularly General Electric and Westinghouse. Soon after the subsidiary was formed, however, RCA Radiotron became the largest producer of radio tubes in the world, which, for RCA, was good news indeed.
This magazine is part of the Hagley Library’s John Okolowicz collection of publications and advertising on radio and consumer electronics (Accession 2014.277). To view more digitized material from this collection, visit its page in our Digital Archive by clicking here.
