ABSTRACT
American recording engineer and executive. He was employed by Edison and then by the U.S. Phonograph Co., and was manager of the record department for Columbia from 1897 to 1914. In 1915 he established the Emerson Phonograph Co. In 1922 he resigned from the presidency of the firm and organized another, the Kodisk Manufacturing Co. But he had to retire because of ill health, and he died in Downey, California. Emerson received 14 U.S. patents.
