Sylvania Electric Memorabilia

Company:  Sylvania Electric Products Inc.
Based: Massachusetts
Founded: 1942 (merged with General Telephone to form GTE in 1959)
Specialty: Major manufacturer of electrical equipment including radios, televisions, diodes, transistors, vacuum tubes, semiconductors, and mainframe computers. Co-Developer of the COBOL programming language.

Sylvania logic chip (1963)

Sylvania Electric Microwave Diodes Paperweight (1958)

Lucite paperweight from Sylvania Electric Products Inc. shows examples of the different types of Microwave Diodes they were offering for sale.

In 1959 Sylvania Electric would merge with General Telephone to form General Telephone and Electronics (GTE).

Measures 3-5/8" x 2-3/4" x 1"

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 Sylvania Electric Gold Transistor Tie Bar (Early 1960s)

Item #120

 This gold plated Tie Bar contains an unusually small,  gold plated, three lead Sylvania Electric Transistor encased in Lucite with black background.

Measures 1 3/4" long x 5/8".

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 Sylvania Electronic Logic Circuit Tie Bar (early 1960s)

Item #858

This metal Tie Bar from Sylvania Electronics Semiconductor division contains a miniature rendition of an Integrated Circuit chip.

​Item has the Sylvania logo stamped on the Tie Bar.



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"Sylvania Sam" Robot (1955)

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