[BC] When did GE die? RCA, Westinghouse, Collins Western Electric.

[Charles Ring W3NU]

Phil Alexander wrote:
> As I recall, The RCA went from the "iron fireman" exciter to the electronic
> version of the same in the FM-xxD which was the same series that brought us
>   

This has been covered before but I am not sure there was a conclusion. I 
have always believed that RCA exciter with the motor-driven frequency 
correction  (MI-7015?) was unofficially called Iron Fireman because of 
its superficial resemblance to an oil burner of that name designed for 
retrofit into old residential coal furnaces. The name referred to the 
homeowner no longer having to shovel coal into the furnace and the 
trademark was a robot with a coal shovel. "Fireman" as on a steam 
locomotive.  The house I lived in from 1956 to 1963 had one of them.