Kolster Radio Corporation
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The Kolster Radio Corporation was an electronics manufacturer and distributor[1] based in Newark, New Jersey, which went bankrupt in January 1930.[2] Its origins were in the merger of the Federal Telegraph Company and the Brandes Production Corporation in 1926, which led to the creation of a new holding company called Federal-Brandes Inc.[3] It assumed the name of Kolster Radio Corporation in April 1928,[4][5] been based on the name of the radio receivers designed by its chief research engineer, Frederick A. Kolster. In June 1928, the Columbia Phonograph Company announced plans to market a radio receiving set built by Kolster Radio. The product was sold in the United States, Europe, and Japan.[6]
