Eldridge R. Johnson

Eldridge R. Johnson ( born February 6, 1867 in Wilmington, Delaware, † November 15, 1945 in Moorestown, New Jersey) was an American mechanic and entrepreneur from Camden City. He was heavily involved in 1900 at the Berlin promoted by Emil development of the gramophone and the records system.

Johnson was troubled by Berlin for the first time when it came to the development and series production of a suitable spring plant for his gramophone devices. They were launched in 1896. The changes helped the product line to a huge increase in sales.

Johnson founded the company Victor Talking Machine Company, which was also known as Victor Records by the record label. One of his devices was called Victrola. The company went public at a later date to RCA. The name component Victor can still be found in the Japanese corporate name of JVC sheet.

When it came to the break between Berlin and his salesman Frank Seaman because of a secretly built up by this competitive production of plagiarism under the product Zonophon that Berlin should prefer to order by Seaman production of Johnson, would have intense legal battles resulted in the partly Johnson was drawn into it.

Finally was able to push through a relatively broad repeal of various trademarks of Berlin through its lawyers, the sides beginners Seaman. Berlin retired in 1900 from the USA and transferred at the same time numerous rights to Johnson, as the products and brands on a phased absolutely blessed with this growth market led for several decades as part of its activities.