Re: [HCDX] [radiostamps] Canada: stamp on Edward S. ("Ted") Rogers, Canadian3BP

["Mike Brooker" <aum108@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Canada: stamp on Edward S. ("Ted") Rogers, Canadian3BP


>Has anybody seen this stamp being available. Does anybody has it in his
collection?:
>
>Edward S. ("Ted") Rogers, Canadian 3BP, the inventor of the first American
tube with an AC-operated filament that produced an acceptable low level of
hum (1924-25) was recently honored on a stamp issued by the Canadian post
office. The stamp shows the tube in the foreground with a photo of the
original Roger Batteryless Radio, its schematic diagram, and Rogers himself,
in the background. Thanks to kc8er@xxxxxxxxxxxx in Ham-Radio-History list.
(Horacio Nigro-Uruguay)


Title: Ted Rogers Sr.: Plugging in the Radio

   Denomination: 46¢

   Date of Issue: 17 December 1999

This stamp was issued as part of Canada Post's millennium series.  It can be
viewed on the National Archives of Canada page, with the following
incredibly long url:
http://data4.archives.ca/netacgi/nph-brs?s1=3616&l=20&d=POST&p=1&u=http%3A%2
F%2Fwww.archives.ca%2F02%2F020117%2F020117030417_e.html&r=1&f=G&SECT3=POST


Also, note stamp issued in 1986 for 50th anniversary of CBC/Radio-Canada
http://data4.archives.ca/netacgi/nph-brs?s1=1055&l=20&d=POST&p=1&u=http%3A%2
F%2Fwww.archives.ca%2F02%2F020117%2F020117030307_e.html&r=1&f=G&SECT3=POST

Radio Canada International stamp issued in 1971
http://data4.archives.ca/netacgi/nph-brs?s1=0528&l=20&d=POST&p=1&u=http%3A%2
F%2Fwww.archives.ca%2F02%2F020117%2F020117030204_e.html&r=1&f=G&SECT3=POST
(wasn't RCI still called the "International Service of the CBC" back in
1971?)

To view every stamp ever issued in Canada since 1851, including stamps
issued by Newfoundland and some other provinces prior to Confederation, go
to http://www.archives.ca/02/02011703_e.html


73

Mike Brooker
Toronto, ON


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