| LC control no. | n 85066885 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Zenith Radio Corporation |
| Variant(s) | Zenith (Firm : Illinois) |
| Biography/History note | Its subsidiary: Zenith Electric Company, Chicago, Illinois, <1930s-1950s>. |
| Ending date | 1984 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Illinois Chicago (Ill.) Glenview (Cook County, Ill.) Lincolnshire (Ill.) |
| Field of activity | Household electronics--Design and construction Household electronics industry |
| Found in | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., et al., appellees, v. United ... 1984: t.p. (Zenith Radio Corporation) Its Annual report, 1976: t.p. (Zenith) p. 19 (Zenith Radio Corporation) Wikipedia, viewed 7 Dec. 2016: under Zenith Electronics (Zenith Electronics LLC is an American brand of consumer electronics owned by South Korean company LG Electronics; it was previously an American company, a manufacturer of radio and television receivers and other consumer electronics, and was headquartered in Glenview, Illinois, then in Lincolnshire, Illinois, U.S; co-founded by Ralph Matthews and Karl Hassel in Chicago, Illinois as Chicago Radio Labs in 1918 as a small producer of amateur radio equipment; name "Zenith" came from ZN'th, a contraction of its founders' ham radio call sign, 9ZN; joined in 1921 by Eugene F. McDonald; Zenith Radio Company was formally incorporated in 1923; by 1962, known as Zenith Radio Corporation; entered the computer market in 1979; name changed to Zenith Electronics Corporation in 1984 to reflect its interests in computers and CATV, and since it had left the radio business two years earlier) |
| Associated language | eng |
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