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The Hallicrafters Company manufactured, marketed, and sold radio equipment, and to a lesser extent televisions and phonographs, beginning in 1932. The company was founded by William J. Halligan and based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. In 1966 Halligan sold the company to the Northrop Corporation and Halligan family involvement ended.
In 1933, radio enthusiast William (Bill) J. Halligan of Chicago founded The Hallicrafters, Inc. The firm sold radios and other electronic components. Ham radio operation in the U.S. was suspended during World War II, and Hallicrafters devoted its resources to producing military goods. After the war, it resumed production for consumers.
1932 - 1975. Founded in Chicago by amateur radio enthusiast William J. Halligan. The company name was derived from Halligan handcrafters. By the late 1930s, Hallicrafters was one of the most popular amateur radio manufacturers. The company was sold to the Northrop Corporation in 1966, and production was re-oriented for defense manufacturing ...
History of Hallicrafters from Chuck Dachis. How It All Began. In Boston, Massachusetts, during the spring of 1899, Hallicrafters founder William J. Halligan was born. It would be another thirty-two years before he or anyone else new how crucial a role he would play in the development of radio technology. As a youngster, Bill was fascinated with ...
Jul 23, 1992 · William J. Halligan, 93, founder and retired chairman of Hallicrafters Co., started the firm in 1933 as a supplier of amateur shortwave radios and then developed it into a major manufacturer of ...
Apr 1, 2021 · Museum Artifact: Hallicrafters Model 5R34A Continental Radio, 1952 Made By: Hallicrafters Company, 4401 W. Fifth Ave., Chicago, IL [North Lawndale] “For radio equipment that won’t be satisfied with the limits of the pre-war world, for radio that will go places and do things hitherto undreamed of and uncharted—look to Hallicrafters, builders of the radio man’s radio.”—Hallicrafters ...
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4401 W. Fifth Ave. / Kostner Ave., Chicago 24, Illinois (1945-1967) William (Bill) J. Halligan, founder of Hallicrafters, was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1899. He got his first ham license as a teenager. Even at that age he considered himself a radio experimenter and bulit an early spark-gap transmitter.
