Benjamin Abrams
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Benjamin Abrams (August 18, 1893 – June 23, 1967)[1] was a Romanian-born American businessman and a founder of Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corporation after his purchase of Emerson Records in 1922. Along with his brothers he invented a number of devices that are commonplace today, among them midget transistor radios, self-powered radios, and clock radios.[2]
He was born in Dorohoi, Romania and emigrated with his parents to the United States when he was 12.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Biography at hbs.edu
- ^ Biography at Consumer Electronics Association website
- ^ Marjorie Dent Candee, Current Biography yearbook, Volume 15, Page 3 (H. W. Wilson Company), 1954
[edit] External links
- Benjamin Abrams profile on Consumer Electronics Association
- How Benjamin Abrams took Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corporation to the corporate top Info at A Touch of Business.com
- Chronological info at consolidatedscrap.com
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