Frank Samuel
Frank Samuel (born January 19, 1889 in London , † February 25, 1954 there ) was a British inventor and senior industrial manager.
As a teenager, he worked in his parents' family business, which manufactured musical instruments. In his spare time he invented the first portable gramophone and had this invention patented. The family business was renamed the Decca Gramophone Company , the Decca gramophones became a sales hit, and Frank Samuel became Decca's first chairman . 1929 Decca was taken public and renamed, Samuel lost his job and was just under 500,000 pounds paid out. In 1932 he took a management position at the United Africa Company (UAC), a subsidiary of Unilever . In 1939 he was appointed director of the UAC. He was the initiator and initially the driving force of the Tanganyika Groundnut Scheme , but understood how not to have to accept political and corporate responsibility for the catastrophic failure of the major project.
- ^ Wood, Alan: The Groundnut Affair; The Bodley Head, London 1950
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| SURNAME | Samuel, Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1954 |
| Place of death | London |