Eldridge Reeves Johnson (February 6, 1867 in
Wilmington, DelawareWilmington is the largest city in the state of Delaware, United States and is located at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley...
– November 15, 1945 in Moorestown, New Jersey) co-created the
Victor Talking Machine CompanyThe Victor Talking Machine Company was an American corporation, the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. It was headquartered in Camden, New Jersey....
alongside
Emile BerlinerEmile Berliner was a German-born American inventor, best known for developing the disc record gramophone...
, a
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, and built it into the leading American producer of
phonographThe record player, phonograph or gramophone was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the late 1870s until the late 1980s.- Terminology :...
s and
phonograph recordsA gramophone record, commonly known as phonograph record, vinyl record, or simply record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove usually starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc...
and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time.
The company was incorporated in
Camden, New JerseyThe City of Camden is the county seat of Camden County, New Jersey, in the United States. It is located across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
in October 1901 by Johnson. The Victor Talking Machine Company was created by merger and reorganization of two existing companies:
Emile BerlinerEmile Berliner was a German-born American inventor, best known for developing the disc record gramophone...
's
Berliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:...
Company, which produced disc records, and Johnson's
Consolidated Talking Machine Company, which produced machines for playing disc records.
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Eldridge Reeves Johnson (February 6, 1867 in
Wilmington, DelawareWilmington is the largest city in the state of Delaware, United States and is located at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley...
– November 15, 1945 in Moorestown, New Jersey) co-created the
Victor Talking Machine CompanyThe Victor Talking Machine Company was an American corporation, the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. It was headquartered in Camden, New Jersey....
alongside
Emile BerlinerEmile Berliner was a German-born American inventor, best known for developing the disc record gramophone...
, a
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
corporationA corporation is a legal entity separate from the shareholders and employees. In British tradition it is the term designating a body corporate, where it can be either a corporation sole or a corporation aggregate...
, and built it into the leading American producer of
phonographThe record player, phonograph or gramophone was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the late 1870s until the late 1980s.- Terminology :...
s and
phonograph recordsA gramophone record, commonly known as phonograph record, vinyl record, or simply record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove usually starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc...
and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time.
The company was incorporated in
Camden, New JerseyThe City of Camden is the county seat of Camden County, New Jersey, in the United States. It is located across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
in October 1901 by Johnson. The Victor Talking Machine Company was created by merger and reorganization of two existing companies:
Emile BerlinerEmile Berliner was a German-born American inventor, best known for developing the disc record gramophone...
's
Berliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:...
Company, which produced disc records, and Johnson's
Consolidated Talking Machine Company, which produced machines for playing disc records. The company was named "The Victor" in honor of legal victories by Johnson and Berliner over Zonophone and others concerning their rights to patents on and distribution of their products.
On February 26, 1985, Johnson posthumously received the 1984
GrammyThe Grammy Awards —or Grammys—are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry...
Trustee Award, given to persons who made a significant contribution in the field of recording. This award is on display at the Johnson Victrola Museum located in
Dover, DelawareThe city of Dover is the capital and second largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. It is also the county seat of Kent County, and the principal city of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Kent County. It is located on the St. Jones River in the Delaware...
. Johnson is buried in
West Laurel Hill CemeteryWest Laurel Hill Cemetery is a cemetery located in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the site of many notable burials, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1992...
, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.
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