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Heathkit SG-8 1958 - Signal Generator The radio frequency signal generator, tests RF communications circuits.

Alternating current (AC) power supply: 110 Volt

The Heath Company was founded as an airline in 1911 by Edward Bayard Heath.
In 1935, Howard Anthony buys the company, which was bankrupt, and produces aircraft accessories.
With the end of World War II the company moved into the electronics industry.
In 1947 it produced the O1 oscilloscope, considered to be Heath Company's first kit.
Between 1947 and 1992 the company became known for the manufacture and sale of electronic kits (Heathkits).

Also in 1958

  • 25 of November - United Nations Security Council Resolution 130 relating to International Cour of Justice is adopted.
  • 1 of July - Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
  • 9 of July - 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami: A 7.8 Mw strike-slip earthquake in Southeast Alaska causes a landslide that produces a megatsunami. The runup from the waves reached 525 m (1,722 ft) on the rim of Lituya Bay. Five were killed.