Invention and Engineering

Eldridge R. Johnson

Eldridge Reeves Johnson (February 6, 1867 – November 14, 1945) was an American businessman and inventor who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901 through a merger of his Consolidated Talking Machine Company and the Berliner Gramophone Company. In 1926, Johnson sold Victor to two banking firms for US$40 million; in 1929, Victor was purchased by the Radio Corporation of America and became known as RCA Victor. He founded the Eldridge R. Johnson Manufacturing Company in 1894 and developed a spring driven motor for the Berliner Gramophone. He improved the quality of phonograph records with the vertical cut recording method. He co-founded the Consolidated Talking Machine Company along with Leon Douglass in 1900. He received 76 patents for his inventions over the course of his career. He won a gold medal for his products at the Pan-American Exposition. He received a Grammy Trustees Award posthumously in 1985 for significant contributions to the field of recording. The Eldridge R. Johnson Park in Camden, New Jersey, and the Eldridge R. Johnson Foundation at the University of Pennsylvania are named in his honor. The Johnson Victrola Museum in Dover, Delaware, was established to honor Johnson and highlight his accomplishments.

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• ▸Coimbatore Wet Grinder
• ▸Easy Peak
• ▸Est 4401 to 4512

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