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Re: [ARSCLIST] The End of Edison (changed the subject line)
--- David Breneman <david_breneman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Actually, Victor and
> Columbia failed at about the same time Edison did, but they
> benefitted from radio companies that bought them out.
Edison, of course, did exactly the reverse: They bought the Splitdorf
Radio Corporation. (And while Edison stopped making records and
phonographs, the company itself survives today as a division of
Cooper Industries, manufacturing lighting equipment.)
MS