General Radio Company; THE GENERAL RADIO COMPANY, pioneer manufacturer of electronic instruments, test equipment, and laboratory standards, was established in June 1915. General Radios founder was Melville Eastham, who, until his retirement in 1930, was president and chief engineer over the greater part of the first 33 years of the company's existence. General Radio was started on the sound assumption that measurement, as already proved in other fields of physics, would he the basis of technical progress in electrical communication. In 1915, markets for electronic products were few: wireless telegraph companies, telephone companies, the armed services, and colleges. Of the companies manufacturing instruments for the radio industry in 1913, no other survives today. Through two wars and two major depressions, the General Radio Company has grown steadily over the past 40 years. It is employee-owned and employee-managed. It is an engineers company. Of its nine-member management committee, seven have engineering degrees. With main offices and factory in Cambridge and a branch plant in Concord, Massachusetts, total plant floor area is more than 220,000 square feet. Employment is approximately 600, of which some 30 are engineers engaged in development, design, and application work.

Generalvertretung für Österreich durch Dipl. Ing. P. Marchetti. Elektronische Geräte und Anlagen, Sandwirtgasse 14, 1060 Wien

Die Altersbestimmung von GenRad-Geräten ist oft schwierig, da viele Geräte und insbesondere auch Bauteile über viele Jahre, ja teilweise Jahrzehnte im Programm waren.

(Quelle: Genrad Kataloge von 1946 bis 1961)