Eldridge R. Johnson

Inventor

Birthday February 6, 1867

Birth Sign Aquarius

Birthplace Delaware

DEATH DATE Nov 14, 1945 (78)

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About

Known for creating the Victor Talking Machine Company with Emile Berliner.

Before Fame

He went to the Delaware Academy until graduation in 1882 and then became a machinist at J. Lodge & Son.

Trivia

He manufactured wire stitching and bookbinding machines.

Family Life

He married Elsie Reeves Fenimore Johnson and they had a child named Fen.

Associated With

He used a zinc disc in his talking machine that was superior to Thomas Edison's wax cylinders.