Flip to Fifty-eight-ton reactor core being lowered into the pressure vessel, Shippingport Atomic Power Station, Shippingport, PA, 1957.Close Window
Credit: Courtesy of the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia
In the early 1900s two giants in the field of radio receiver manufacturing, the Atwater Kent Manufacturing Company and Philco, had their plants in Philadelphia. The Victor Talking Machine Company, the nation's largest producer of phonograph recordings, had its headquarters just across the river in Camden, New Jersey.
