American Cable and Radio Corporation
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American Cable and Radio Corporation was a communications holding company in the middle 20th century. Created in February 1940, it was a part of ITT World Communications, and operated what was known as the American Cable and Radio System, comprising All America Cables and Radio, the Commercial Cable Company
, Mackay Radio, and the Sociedad Anonima Radio Argentina. The company was created, along with the All America Corporation and the Commercial Mackay Corporation, after the reorganization of the ITT subsidiary Postal Telegraph and Cable Corporation, which had gone into bankruptcy in 1935. Active in the 1940s and 1950s, its head in the 1950s was Rear Admiral Ellery W. Stone
, USN (retired), who ran it until 1958. Another prominent electrical engineer, Haraden Pratt
, was vice president from 1953-1958. The company was still in existence as late as 1980.
Commercial Cable Company
The Commercial Cable Company was founded in the United States in 1884 by John William Mackay and James Gordon Bennett, Jr. Their motivation was to break the then virtual monopoly of Jay Gould on transatlantic telegraphy and bring down prices .The technology was well established by this time, and...
, Mackay Radio, and the Sociedad Anonima Radio Argentina. The company was created, along with the All America Corporation and the Commercial Mackay Corporation, after the reorganization of the ITT subsidiary Postal Telegraph and Cable Corporation, which had gone into bankruptcy in 1935. Active in the 1940s and 1950s, its head in the 1950s was Rear Admiral Ellery W. Stone
Ellery W. Stone
Ellery Wheeler Stone, Rear Admiral, United States Naval Reserve was a prominent figure in the history of radio, serving both in government and corporations during the first half of the twentieth century. He studied radio engineering at the University of California...
, USN (retired), who ran it until 1958. Another prominent electrical engineer, Haraden Pratt
Haraden Pratt
Haraden Pratt was a noted American electrical engineer and radio pioneer.Pratt was born in San Francisco, California, where his parents were telegraph operators. He learned Morse code when young and worked briefly as a shipboard wireless operator before entering the University of California...
, was vice president from 1953-1958. The company was still in existence as late as 1980.