Mel Boldt records, 1950-1989.

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Mel Boldt records, 1950-1989.

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The records consist primarily of design drawings and photographs. Also included are some business records such as patent applications and product literature. Zenith drawings are most heavily represented in the design drawings. The records are arranged into the following series: Televisions, Clock Radios and Radios, National Presto Industries Products, Washers and Dryers, Stereo Components, Refrigerators, Ranges, Microwaves, Schick Products, Miscellaneous Products, Photographs, and Mel Boldt and Associates records.

16 cubic ft. and 21 oversize boxes

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Mel Boldt & Associates.

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Industrial designer Mel Boldt was born in Chicago and attended the Armour Institute (now Illinois Institute of Technology). He left after two years to go to work at Bendix Home Appliances, Inc. in Indiana. During World War II he designed for military needs and then after the war worked as product stylist for major household appliances, including the Bendix post-war washing machine. Returning to Chicago in 1947, he opened his own firm, Mel Boldt and Associates, with Zenith as a key client. For Ze...

Boldt, Melvin H., 1917-1981.

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Zenith Electronics Corporation.

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Zenith Radio Company.

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National Presto Industries, Inc.

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National Presto Industries, Inc. was founded in Eau Claire, Wisconsin as Northwestern Steel and Iron Works in 1905. Initially the company manufactured industrial-size pressure canners only. By 1915 its product line had expanded to include hotel and home use pressure cookers for use in canning. In 1939 the company introduced its first saucepan-style pressure cooker under the trade name "Presto." National Presto Industries began manufacturing electric appliances, including steam irons, electric sk...

Bendix Corporation

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Founded in 1924 by Vincent Bendix to manufacture brake systems, by the mid-1950s the Bendix Corporation had branched out into many other areas, one of these being scientific instrumentation. Their flagship product in this area was the Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer and when newer developments resulted in instruments like the quadrupole mass spectrometer, Bendix saw its market share begin to erode. At first Bendix shifted its TOF MS business to a subsidiary, the Consolidated Vacuum Corporation ...