Louis Glass ( English Louis T. Glass ; August 6, 1845 , Maryland - November 12, 1924 , San Francisco ) - American businessman, inventor of the jukebox .
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In 1868, he began working as a telegraph operator at Western Union . By 1879, had accumulated a sufficient amount of money to participate in a business project on telephoning Auckland and San Diego . In 1889 he founded the Pacific Phonographic Company ( English Pacific Phonograph Company ) and on November 23 of the same year, together with business partner William Arnold, presented a combination of a phonograph designed by Thomas Edison with a coin acceptor . For six months, 15 automatic devices were made, and in May 1890 at the first congress of regional phonographic companies in the USA, Glass announced a profit of $ 4,019; On May 27, Glass and Arnold received a patent.
In 1898, Glass took up the post of first vice president and general manager of the Pacific Telegraph and Telephone Company, and since 1905, served as its president. At the same time, in 1905, he founded the Philippine Telegraph and Telephone Company, intending to begin telephoning the Philippines . However, already in 1906, together with his brother-in-law and subordinate Theodore, Halsey Glass was accused of bribing municipal officials of San Francisco in order to prevent a competing telephone network from appearing in the city. In 1907, Glass and Halsey were found guilty by a jury and spent five years in prison [1] .
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- ↑ Walton Bean. Boss Ruef's San Francisco: The Story of the Union Labor Party, Big Business, and the Graft Prosecution. - University of California Press, 1952. - P. 232—239.