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Our brief history
takes us back to 1931, the year John Geloso founded our Company. Geloso, a
pioneer in the Electrical and Electronics fields, emerges into history as one
of the "forefathers" of today's electronics' industry. In 1919, as a young
immigrant, he came to America from Genoa, Italy, immediately fascinated by the
potentials of electricity, especially with Marconi's Radio Transmissions across
the Atlantic. Subsequently, he worked for one of the radio and telegraph shops
that opened on Cortland Street in New York City. In 1924, he graduated in
Electrical Engineering at the Cooper Union University: the college where Thomas
Edison had also studied. Geloso then joined Pilot Electric Manufacturing (PEM)
and became project engineer for what was then called "The Magic Lantern", the
beginning of television. The first transmission experiment took place in 1928,
between the transmitter located at Station WRNY in Coytesville, NJ and the
receiver (designed and built by John Geloso) inside Philosophy Hall at the New
York University. Witnessing the experiment was Lee De Forest, the inventor of
the "Triode Vacuum Tube". The screen was only 2 square inches but it clearly
showed the image of a woman smiling.(Geloso's
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