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Fisher-Price, Inc. is an American company that produces educational toys for infants, toddlers and preschoolers, headquartered in East Aurora, New York. It was founded in 1930 during the Great Depression by Herman Fisher, Irving Price, Helen Schelle and Margaret Evans Price. Fisher-Price has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Mattel since 1993.
Fisher Electronics was an American audio equipment manufacturer founded in 1945 by Avery Fisher in New York City, New York. Originally named the Fisher Radio Corporation, the company is considered a pioneer in high fidelity audio equipment.
Typical walkie-talkies resemble a telephone handset, with a speaker built into one end and a microphone in the other (in some devices the speaker also is used as the microphone) and an antenna mounted on the top of the unit. They are held up to the face to talk. A walkie-talkie is a half-duplex communication device. Multiple walkie-talkies use ...
In the days when CB required a license, some low-powered or toy walkie-talkies were exempt because they operated within Part 15. However, in 1976, the FCC phased in a shift of these 100 mW [ 12 ] devices to the 49 MHz band, with operation on the CB frequencies to cease in 1983. [ 13 ]
1950s Space Commander Walkie Talkies [5] 1953 Medicine Chest; 1955 Big Max (magnetic robot that picked off iron slugs from battery operated conveyor belt and placed them the bed of a small toy truck) 1957 Firebird 99 battery powered dashboard game. 1957 Pom Pom Gun, battery powered double-barrel cannon. 1958 Giant Wheel Cowboys'n Indians Game
The first two-way radio was an AM-only device introduced by the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1940 for use by the police and military during World War II, and followed by the company's 1943 introduction of the Walkie-Talkie, [3] the best-known example of a two-way radio. [4]
The Crosley Corporation also made components for Walkie-talkie transceivers and IFR radio guidance equipment, among other products. In addition, Crosley's also manufactured field kitchens, air supply units for Sperry S-1 bombsites (used in B-24 bombers ), air conditioning units, Martin PBM Mariner bow- gun turrets , and quarter-ton trailers.
In 2000, Fisher-Price changed the rotary dial for a push-button version with lights in an effort to modernize the toy, but consumers complained and the rotary version returned to the market the following year. [4] The Chatter Telephone was designed by Ernest Thornell, [5] whose daughter Tina would drag around a metal phone while playing.