Clifford Edward Berry was an American inventor.

Clifford Berry was born in Gladbrook, Iowa

Gladbrook, Iowa

Gladbrook is a city in Tama County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,015 at the 2000 census.-History:On March 21, 1910, The Green Mountain train wreck occurs between Gladbrook and Green Mountain in which a derailment killed more than fifty people riding on the Chicago, Rock Island and...

 to Fred Gordon Berry and Grace Strohm. He was the oldest of four children born to the couple: Clifford, Keith, Frederick, and Barbara.
When Clifford Berry was a small child, his father Fred had an electrical appliance and repair store in Gladbrook, where he had several electrical projects. By far the greatest of his projects was a radio—the first radio in Gladbrook.

This prompted a stream of town visitors to get a glimpse at the machine.