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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.
- The Artifact
- A History of Hallicrafters, Part I: The Boston Ham
- II. Crafting A Brand
- III. Bombproof
- IV. New Adventures in Hi-Fi
- V. Video Skilled, The Radio Star
- VI. End Transmission
“Now Hallicrafters, unchallenged leader in the field of advanced short wave for foreign reception, brings you a remarkable instrument—the Hallicrafters 5R30A. Here is more than simply a radio—here is the key to the airwaves of the world, for with this set, small though it is, you get world-wide reception. Naturally, you get the finest in regular ra...
“Until Bill Halligan came along and designed a radio set for ham radio operators, the hobbyists built their own receiver and transmitter. These consisted of a ton or more of equipment piled tier-on-tier in a jungle of wiring, usually in an attic or basement. Most of them looked like Goldberg nightmares.” —Sales Management, 1947 William Halligan was...
In 1928, with radio sales exploding, Halligan decided to strike out on his own. He also made the astute decision to move his family to Chicago, which he’d visited several times as a salesman and had deemed the rising epicenter of his industry. This is the part of the story, of course, where the stock market eventually crashes and all youthful optim...
“Hallicrafters sets were developed in the great testing grounds of amateur radio. They have served an ‘attic apprenticeship’ and have come out of the attic to go around the world with victorious Allied armies.” —Hallicrafters advertisement, 1944 In the summer of 1941 (according to company lore), one of Bill Halligan’s tidy new 450-watt transmitters...
In the introduction to his 1945 African safari memoir South of the Sahara, explorer Attilio Gatti wrote in glowing terms about Hallicrafters, which had also (coincidentally) sponsored his expedition. The Italian-born adventurer noted the “admiration and gratitude I owe to the Hallicrafters organization, their imaginative leadership, their precise t...
“When you turn on this beautiful console, you’ll thrill to television’s clearest picture . . . a spectacular performance! Hallicrafters sensational DYNAMIC TUNER with the ‘Precision Printed Circuit’ is the answer.” —Hallicrafters Television ad, 1950 America’s transition from radio to television wasn’t as gradual as one might presume. Since much of ...
Despite fizzling out of the TV market, Hallicrafters’ final decade as a family business, from 1956 to 1966, still saw record sales figures—mostly through military contracts (including the new fields of space communications and missile defense systems), but also through steady success in the shortwave radio market, as the company’s ham kits continue...
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 the new technology of radio telegraphy, anxiously gleaning ...
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.
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Data Source: National Museum of American History. Id Number: EM.334935 Catalog Number: 334935 Accession Number: 315488 Model Number: S-40. Object Name: radio receiver. Physical Description: steel (overall material) glass (overall material)rubber (overall material) plastic (overall material) Measurements: overall: 8 1/2 in x 18 1/2 in x 10 1/2 ...
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 ...
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This webpage indexes and links to a virtual museum of a large collection of radio equipment from Hallicrafters and the History of Hallicrafters. It includes color photos, specifications, descriptions and interesting information for those interested in Hallicrafters radios.
