Nortel History - 1930 to 1939
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1930-1932 - Diversification and design during the Great Depression
The Depression affords time for commercial development to catch up with laboratory
advances. New products reach the market at more advanced stages
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1932 - Trans-Canada telephone toll system
A trans-Canada telephone toll system goes live with large automatic Northern
Electric switches in the business districts of Toronto, Montreal,
Quebec City, Hamilton, and Windsor. |
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1934 - Diversifying in sound and acoustic devices
Northern Electric establishes a subsidiary, Dominion Sound Equipment
Limited, to provide sound and acoustic services—radios at first,
then a range of products not connected with the telephone business
and therefore not bound by Western Electric influence. |
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1935 - Proving ground for Canadian talent
A Northern Electric engineer—fresh from the University of Toronto—
co-designs a general-purpose aircraft transmitter-receiver that
becomes standard equipment for the Commonwealth Air Training
Plan during World War II. |
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1937 - Forerunner to today's corporate telephone
Northern Electric develops the number "205" featured telephone, the predecessor
of today's corporate phones.
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1937 - Internal R&D function emerges
The Dominion Sound Equipment "job shop," develops Movietone
equipment, police and public address systems, fire alarm systems,
electronic medical products, and radio receivers and transmitters.
This job shop becomes the Special Products Division, the company's
first internal R&D department. |
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1939 - Canada enters World War II
Northern Electric turns its factories over to the war effort to manufacture
marine and aircraft radios, tank radios, and fuses for anti-aircraft
guns. The Northern Electric version of wireless radios for tanks
and other military vehicles became the standard for Canada,
Britain, and Russia. Under the company's design and production
coordination, some 30,000 tank sets were manufactured. |
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