Admiral

Admiral is an American appliance brand currently manufactured by Whirlpool Corporation. The brand is sold at The Home Depot.

Ross Siragusa founded Continental Radio and Television Corp. as a maker of consumer electronics (radios and phonographs) in Chicago during 1934. This later became Admiral Corp. Its annual sales were about $2 million. Admiral supplied the U.S. military with electronic equipment during World War II, and was one of the major television manufacturers in the early era of that medium. In 1950, for instance, Admiral was selling a line of seven TV sets, with four models having a 12½ inch tube size (between $179.95 and $379.95, equivalent to $1,770 to $3,934 today), a 16 inch model at $299.95 ($2,950), and two 19 inch models (at $495 and $695, equivalent to $4,869 and $6,836). Success in television sales enabled the company to branch out into major appliances such as refrigerators by the 1950s.

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Admiral is an American appliance brand currently manufactured by Whirlpool Corporation. The brand is sold at The Home Depot.

Ross Siragusa founded Continental Radio and Television Corp. as a maker of consumer electronics (radios and phonographs) in Chicago during 1934. This later became Admiral Corp. Its annual sales were about $2 million. Admiral supplied the U.S. military with electronic equipment during World War II, and was one of the major television manufacturers in the early era of that medium. In 1950, for instance, Admiral was selling a line of seven TV sets, with four models having a 12½ inch tube size (between $179.95 and $379.95, equivalent to $1,770 to $3,934 today), a 16 inch model at $299.95 ($2,950), and two 19 inch models (at $495 and $695, equivalent to $4,869 and $6,836). Success in television sales enabled the company to branch out into major appliances such as refrigerators by the 1950s.

The various divisions were sold to other companies by the mid-1970s due in part to imported consumer electronics dumped on the US market from Japan. Rockwell International acquired the company in 1973, selling the appliance operations to Magic Chef, which was later sold to Maytag. In turn, Maytag was later acquired by Whirlpool.

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