Eldridge Johnson was an American industrialist
and businessman who co-founded the Victor
Talking Machine Company. At one time, this company was the leading producer
of phonographs and phonograph records in the US.
Johnson’s mother died when he was just two
years old. He lived with his aunt until he was ten when his father remarried.
He lived with his father and stepmother until he was fifteen. Because he was
poor, he did not have the chance to go to college after high school. Instead,
he entered trading.
In 1883, Johnson apprenticed in a Philadelphia
machine shop, J. Lodge & Son. When he became an experienced machinist,
Johnson moved to Scull machine Shop in New Jersey.
Johnson became the foreman, and later, manager
of Scull. He continued on the work left by John W. Scull, who died earlier that
year – a bookbinding machine.
After completing the machine, he went as far as Washington.
There, he established the Eldridge Johnson
Manufacturing Company. He manufactured and sold bookbinding machines and other
devices such as the gramophone.
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