Interview with Ralph Heintz, 1974 June 30.

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Interview with Ralph Heintz, 1974 June 30.

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Re-transcription made on June 11, 1975 of an oral interview conducted by Thorn Mayes. Reminiscences of the early days of vacuum tube development in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the invention of the gammatron; discussion of Heintz's companies and his relations with the Robert Dollar Company.

Transcript: 1 volume (31 leaves)Phonotapes: 2 sound cassettes.

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Heintz, Ralph Morrell, 1892-1980,

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Mayes, Thorn L.

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Mayes has an interest in the history of radio tube development. From the description of DeForest Radio Telephone Companies, 1907-1920 : typescript, 1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122546544 ...

Robert Dollar Co.

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History Agency History Organized in 1900, Dollar spent its first two decades in the transpacific trade as "essentially a tramp operator, whose main cargoes were bulk, low-value merchandise not suitable for the larger and faster passenger-cargo liners of the Pacific Mail Steamship Lines." [1] Both APL and Dollar traced their corporate origins to the famous Pacific Mail Steamship Company (PMSS) formed in 1848. Pacific Mail dominated...