Leon F. Douglass

Leon Forrest Douglas (March 12, 1869 - September 7, 1940) was an American inventor and co-founder of Victor Talking Machine, which registered about fifty patents, mainly on film and sound recording methods. Douglas was born in the countryside of Nebraska, near modern Syracuse. His parents were Seymour James Douglas, a carpenter and carpenter, and Mate (Fuller) Douglas. He studied at the gymnasium in Lincoln, Nebraska, was a student of the printing house, at eleven worked as a telegraph messenger, and at seventeen was the manager of the telephone exchange in the telephone company of Nebraska in Seward.