Eldridge R. Johnson was a prolific inventor born in Delaware on February 6, 1867. He is best known for his work in the music industry, where he developed the first mass-produced phonograph and founded the Victor Talking Machine Company. He was also involved in the development of the automobile and the airplane. His net worth, biography, age, height, family, and career updates are available online.
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Known for creating the Victor Talking Machine Company with Emile Berliner.
He went to the Delaware Academy until graduation in 1882 and then became a machinist at J. Lodge & Son.
He manufactured wire stitching and bookbinding machines.
He married Elsie Reeves Fenimore Johnson and they had a child named Fen.
He used a zinc disc in his talking machine that was superior to Thomas Edison's wax cylinders.
