Alfred Stromberg

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Alfred Stromberg (left) and Androv Carlson; 1898

Alfred Stromberg (born March 9, 1861 in Sweden , † March 8, 1913 in the USA ) was a Swedish-American inventor and entrepreneur.

Life

The son of Anders Gustav Strömberg (* 1822) and Lovisa Andersdotter (* 1823) from Varnhem , Västergötland , started at the age of 15 at the instrument and telegraph factory Öllers & Co. , where the young Lars Magnus Ericsson also worked. He lived in the Hedwig Eleonora parish near Stockholm. From 1879 he installed exchanges in Stockholm, Scandinavia and Denmark.

At the end of 1882 he emigrated and from 1885 worked for Bell Telephone Co. in Chicago , where he applied for some patents. In 1886 he married Ella (1864-1936), the daughter of Anders Thelander and Hedvig Johnson from Stockholm. The couple had a son and three daughters: Minnie (* 1885; oo 1907 Adolph L. Denniston), Alice (1888–1914), Emil (* 1890) and Eva (* 1892). In 1890 he took over the management of Chicago Electric Protective Co.'s Burglar Alarm System , where he made some improvements. The company then became known as the Stromberg system .

After Bell's fundamental telephone patents had expired in 1894, he teamed up with his colleague Androv Carlson (1854 in Borsa (?) - 1925 in Chicago) and founded Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Mfg. In Chicago in 1895 . Co. , known for the Farmer's Phone . In May 1895 they registered it as a stock corporation and were bought up by a group of capitalists.

In 1901 they had 1,200 employees and monthly sales of $ 200,000. In addition to their four-story factory building, they also bought the neighboring seven-story building on the corner of Jackson and Clinton Streets. When they had 20 million and 2,500 men two years later, they consolidated with large firms in the east. His son-in-law installed telephone systems in Salt Lake.

John S. Goldberg invented a principle for a carburetor, which in 1905 became the first Stromberg carburetor , and which ensured that the engine would start immediately. With Charles W. Stiger and Charles A. Brown, Stromberg and Carlsson founded the Goldberg Motor Car Device Co. in 1907/08 , which became the Stromberg Motor Devices Co. (1909) and later the Stromberg Carburetor Co. (1916). He also worked with Harry C. Tillotson on his numerous patents.

Hostile takeover attempts had been made since 1901 and the headquarters were relocated to Rochester, New York . After Eugene H. Satterlee was president of the company from October 1902 to August 1905, Stromberg took this post again for 14 months. Around 1908 Stromberg sold his stake in the telephone division to the holding US Independent Telephone Company (USITC) and devoted himself to car accessories. In 1910 his family lived in Chicago Ward 25, Cook County, Illinois . One day before his birthday, Alfred Stromberg succumbed to a three-week illness. He is buried in Rosehill Cemetery .

Stromberg-Carlson , who joined Ray H. Manson (* 1887) as chief engineer in 1916, delivered field telephones and exchanges to the Signal Corps during World War I, produced Neutrodyne straight-ahead receivers from 1923 , took over the radio station WHAM (AM) , and cooperated 1925 with injection carburetors with the Bendix Corporation and after a partial merger with General Dynamics (1955) became one of the three big American providers of telephone private branch exchanges from the 1970s.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ella Thelander Stromberg in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved May 4, 2017.
  2. ↑ Alice Mae Stromberg in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved May 4, 2017.
  3. ↑ Androv Carlson in the database of Find a Grave . Retrieved May 4, 2017.
  4. ↑ Special-interest cars; 1974; P. 33
  5. ↑ https://www.google.com/patents/US1086594 Patent US1086594 A; Registered: Nov. 2, 1906
  6. ↑ http://www.leagle.com/decision/192541510F2d405_1264/STROMBERG%20MOTOR%20DEVICES%20CO.%20v.%20BENECKE%20&%20KROPF%20MFG.%20CO .
  7. ^ Alan Stone: Public Service Liberalism. Princeton University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-400-86200-9 , p. 156 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  8. ↑ http://us-census.mooseroots.com/l/334234766/Emil-A-Stromberg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / us-census.mooseroots.com  
personal data
SURNAME Stromberg, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish-American inventor and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Sweden
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1913
Place of death United States