In a message dated 2/21/2004 2:43:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
> Yes...the company went from The Universal Talking Machine Co. to the > Universal Talking Machine Manufacturing Co. but I was always under the > impression that Frank Seaman and Louis Valiquet (design) were involved in > both operations. Who then was at the helm when it reappeared in December > 1901? > ***************** Edward S. Innet was one of the incorporators of the revived concern, in Dec 1901. Frank Seaman was not involved with the new company: "Mfg." Victor kept the American Zonophone Co alive until 1912, when an old lawsuit of Columbia's, arguing that their disc license to the original Zonophone, could not be transferred to Victor, was sustained by the Courts. Details in PHP. I believe that Robert Thomae was also involved with the new Zonophone Co. It was he who tried to float that advertising ballon with Nipper on it. Many of Valiquet's patents, after Oct 1903, were indeed assigned to Victor. Valiquet died in 1925. Seaman started work for Edison in 1922. Allen www.phonobooks.com
