ID This Victrola Radiola?

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Well, it seems Victor was not the designer of the Micro-synchronous radio either. Here is another related story:

"(This comes from) an excellent paper on the early history of technology in Silicon Valley: By
Timothy J. Sturgeon. "How Silicon Valley Came to Be." Chapter 2 in Understanding Silicon Valley: The Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial Region. Edited by Martin Kenney. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 2000.

Much of the early part of Sturgeon's paper is devoted to Federal Telegraph Corporation, founded in Palo Alto in 1909 by the remarkable Stanford graduate, Cyril Elwell. About 16 pages into the paper, we come to a major section titled "Federal Telegraph's spinoffs." That section has a subsection titled "The single-dial radio tuner."

What follows has been (copied) almost verbatim from said subsection:

Harold F. Elliot, Stanford graduate (1916) joined the engineering force at Federal Telegraph Co. in Summer of 1916. Elliot came to have a prominent role at FTC working on various features of the Poulsen arc radio transmission technology. In 1925 Elliot began experimenting with designs for a single-dial radio tuner for broadcast receivers.

By 1927, Elliot had worked out detailed engineering and manufacturing specifications for a single-dial tuner. After carefully researching various potential manufacturers of radio receivers, he brought the device to the attention of the Victor Phonograph Company. Victor, well known for its phonographs, had a license from RCA and was on the brink of entering the market for home radio sets. Victor bought the rights to Elliot's device, which they dubbed the "microsynchronous tuner." Just as the company completed the design for their new receiver and was ready to go into production, Victor was acquired by RCA. The set went into production as "The Victor Microsynchronous Receiver," the first single-dial receiver on the market."