inventor, manufacturer, b. Milwaukee. He was educated in Milwaukee public schools and studied electricity through a correspondence course. He conducted an X-ray laboratory in. Milwaukee (1898-1900), and developed an electric crane control on which he received a patent in 1903. In 1903, with the financial backing of Dr. Stanton Allen, Milwaukee orthopedic physician, he organized a company to manufacture electric controllers and other electrical devices; it was known as the Compression Rheostat Company until 1909, and thereafter as the Allen-Bradley Company. Bradley was president of the company (1916-1942). Natl. CycIopaedia Amer. Biog., 31 (1944); Allen-Bradley Co., "Milestones of Progress: The Story of the Allen-Bradley Co. [Unpub. MS, Milwaukee, n.d.]; F. L. Holmes, et al., eds., Wis. (5 vols., Chicago, 1946); Milwaukee Tolima], Feb. 9, 1942.Learn More
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