Benjamin Abrams (August 18, 1893 – June 23, 1967) was a

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businessman and a founder of Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corporation after his purchase of

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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. He was born in

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, Romania and emigrated with his parents to the

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when he was 12. Abrams was a

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. He was a member of Farragut Lodge No 976 in New York.Denslow, William R. 10,000 Famous Freemasons, Vol. I, A-D.

References

External links

Benjamin Abrams profile on Consumer Electronics Association
Info at A Touch of Business.com

at consolidatedscrap.com 1893 births 1967 deaths 20th-century American businesspeople American Freemasons People from Dorohoi Romanian emigrants to the United States 20th-century Romanian Jews 20th-century American engineers {{US-engineer-stub