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Grundig Business Systems (GBS) is a German maker of dictation solutions located in Bayreuth and Nuremberg in Germany and employs 170 people. It was spun off from Grundig AG in 2001 to focus on the of manufacture of analogue and digital dictation devices featuring the "Made in Germany" label.
Grundig started as a typical German company in 1945. Its early notability was due to Grundig radio.Max Grundig, a radio dealer, built a machine called "Heinzelmann", which was a radio that came without thermionic valves and as a do it yourself kit to circumvent post war rules.
A line of eight Majestic radio models was offered, along with television sets. [43] In August, 1954, Ashbach announced that Wilcox-Gay's Majestic radio and television subsidiary would begin importing Grundig FM radios from Germany as well, including an AM-FM-shortwave table model, added to the firm's Majestic product line. The Grundig radios ...
A batteryless radio is a type of radio receiver that does not require the use of a battery to provide it with electrical power. Originally this referred to units which could be used directly by AC mains supply (mains radio); it can also refer to units which do not require a power source at all, except for the power that they receive from an ...
In 1930, Grundig and a colleague opened a store selling radios under the name Fürth, Grundig & Wurzer (RVF), generating one million Reichsmark in sales by 1938. After World War II, business expanded with a successful range of consumer electronics. In 1972, the company became a corporation and was sold to Philips in 1984.
During World War II, Germany developed a hand-crank 500 kHz rescue radio, the "Notsender" (emergency transmitter) NS2. It used two vacuum tubes and was crystal-controlled. The radio case curved inward in the middle so that a user seated in an inflatable life boat could hold it stationary, between the thighs, while the generator handle was turned.
Telephone magneto viewed from beneath shows the armature (inset, left) and the horseshoe field magnets, and the gears to drive the rotor. A telephone magneto is a hand-cranked electrical generator that uses permanent magnets to produce alternating current from a rotating armature.
Software designed for radio SHARK allows users to record radio programs at specific times and frequencies. The software also facilitates listening of "live" radio using time-shifting technology. Using the time-shifting features of the software, users can pause, rewind, and fast-forward "live" radio, in a manner similar to how users of TiVo or ...