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Crosley's all-steel Wagons were their best sellers (1947–1952) The Crosley Hotshot, introduced in 1949, was America's first post-war sportscar. Crosley was a small, independent American manufacturer of economy cars or subcompact cars, bordering on microcars.
Crosley Radio is an audio electronic manufacturing company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. It is a modern incarnation of the original Crosley Corporation which existed from 1921 to 1956. Modern Marketing Concepts resurrected the Crosley name after the original brand was discontinued by parent company Avco in 1956, due to declining sales.
Powel Crosley Jr. (September 18, 1886 – March 28, 1961) was an American inventor, industrialist, and entrepreneur.He was also a pioneer in radio broadcasting, and owner of the Cincinnati Reds major league baseball team.
A Crosley IcyBall with cold side ball on left, hot side ball on right. Icyball is a name given to two early refrigerators, one made by Australian Sir Edward Hallstrom in 1923, and the other design patented by David Forbes Keith of Toronto (filed 1927, granted 1929), [1] [2] and manufactured by American Powel Crosley Jr., who bought the rights to the device.
A Crosley retro-styled suitcase record player produced in c. 2013. At the low-end of the market, Crosley has been especially popular with its suitcase record players [89] and have played a big part in the vinyl revival and its adoption among younger people and children in the 2010s. [90] A mid-range Yamaha turntable, c. 2019
Whirlpool Corporation is an American multinational manufacturer and marketer of home appliances headquartered in Benton Charter Township, Michigan, United States. [2] In 2023, the Fortune 500 company had an annual revenue of approximately $19 billion in sales, around 59,000 employees, and more than 55 manufacturing and technology research centers globally.
On automobiles, disc brakes are often located within the wheel A drilled motorcycle brake disc. The development of disc-type brakes began in England in the 1890s. In 1902, the Lanchester Motor Company designed brakes that looked and operated similarly to a modern disc-brake system even though the disc was thin and a cable activated the brake pad. [4]
Guglielmo Marconi, who built the first radio receivers, with his early spark transmitter (right) and coherer receiver (left) from the 1890s. The receiver records the Morse code on paper tape Generic block diagram of an unamplified radio receiver from the wireless telegraphy era [4] Example of transatlantic radiotelegraph message recorded on paper tape by a siphon recorder at RCA's New York ...