THE "MAGIC" OF A DYNE

Almost everyone in the radio business has heard of the superheterodyne and the Neutrodyne. These were circuits used by any number of manufacturers over the years.

Not to miss out on a good thing, a number of firms added the "dyne" to their product's description, apparently feeling that the public would be impressed by it.

The "dyne" is a unit of force. One dyne is the force required to accelerate one gram one centimeter per second per second. (Wow!). Just how this applied to radio is a good question.

Looking through radio magazines of the 1920's ("dynes" died out in the early thirties) we found the following. No doubt there are more, but this is a start.


Aero-Dyne. Radio News, February 1927   Autodyne Radio News, April 1929
Clear-O-Dyne Cleartone Radio Co, Cincinnati, OH
Popular Radio, January 1925
  Compendyne E Singer Co., NYC, NY
Radio Broadcast,January 1925
Deresnadyne Andrews Radio Co. Chicago, IL
Radio Broadcast, May 1925
  Hilodyne Algonquin Electric Co., NYC, NY
Radio News, 1-28
Infradyne Gray & Danielson Mfg. Co. (Remler),
San Francisco, CA
  Islodyne Thorola, Reichmann Co., Chicago, IL
Popular Radio, December 1925
Logo-Dyne Kodel Radio Corp. Cincinnati, OH
Popular Radio, November 1925
  Metrodyne Metro Electric Co. Chicago, IL
Radio News, Feb. '27, Jan. '28
Marvodyne Amber Mfg. Co., NYC, NY
Radio Broadcast, April 1925
  Monodyne National Airphone Corp. NYC, NY
Radio News, February 1924
Morradyne Morrison Radiophone Co.
Bridgeport, CT
Radio Broadcast,January 1925
  Neutro-
heterdyne
Radio News, June 1928
Peridyne Peridyne, NYC, NY
Radio News,Dec. '27, Jan. '28
  Pliodyne Golden-Leutz, mc, NYC, NY
Radio Broadcast, January 1925
Polydyne A-C Dayton, A-C Electrical Mfg. Co.,
Dayton, OH
Popular Radio, September 1924
  Radiodyne WesteRadio News Coil & Electrical Co.,
Racine, WI
Popular Radio, Sept. '24, Jan. '25
Solodyne Cummings Radio Corp. Springfield, MO
Radio News,June 1928
  Standardyne Emerson Radval Corp. NYC, NY
Popular Radio, March 1927
Strobodyne Consrad Co., NYC, NY
Radio News, July 1927, April 1928
  Super-Hilodyne Potter Products Corp. NYC, NY
Radio News, April 1928
Thermiodyne Thermiodyne Radio Corp., Plattsburgh, NY
Popular Radio, January 1925
  Tone-A-Dyne Resas, Inc. NYC, NY
Radio Broadcast, May 1925
Torodyne Ainsworth Radio Co., Cincinnati, OH
Popular Radio, November 1925
  Ultradyne Phenix Radio Corp. NYC, NY
Popular Radio, Jan. '25, Sept. '24
Ultradyne Ultradyne Sales Co. Chicago, IL
Radio News, April 1928

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