Eldridge R. Johnson

Eldridge R. Johnson

American businessman and inventor (1867-1945)

📍 Wilmington, Delaware USA

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Eldridge Reeves Johnson 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.

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