Benjamin Abrams was a Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

n-born American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 businessman and a founder of Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corporation

Emerson Radio

Emerson Radio Corporation was founded in 1948. It is one of the United States’ largest volume consumer electronics distributors and has a recognized trademark in continuous use since 1912...

 after his purchase of Emerson Records

Emerson Records

Emerson Records was a record label active in the United States between 1916 to 1928. Emerson Records produced between the 1910s and early 1920s offered generally above average audio fidelity for the era, pressed in high quality shellac. The fidelity of the later issues compares less...

 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 Dorohoi

Dorohoi

Dorohoi is a city in the Botoşani County, Romania, on the right bank of the Jijia River, which broadens into a lake on the north.Dorohoi used to be a market for the timber and farm produce of the north Moldavian highlands; merchants from the neighboring states flocked to its great fair, held on...

, Romania and emigrated with his parents to the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

when he was 12.

External links

• Benjamin Abrams profile on Consumer Electronics Association
• How Benjamin Abrams took Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corporation to the corporate top Info at A Touch of Business.com
• Chronological info at consolidatedscrap.com