Homer E. Capehart was born in Algiers, Indiana on June 6th, 1897. He worked for Holcombe & Hoke, but was fired after negotiating the rights for a double sided record playing system and suggesting this to Holcombe & Hoke which had their own player system in production. So Capehart founded his own company in 1927 and started producing the Orchestrope and home phonographs. After several crisis, reorganizations, new record player systems and financial problems Capehart was forced out of his own company in 1931. the company became Capehart-Farnsworth and continued to produce home phongraphs. They closed in 1948.
And Capehart itself? In 1932 he rented the old Packard Piano Company in Fort Wayne and developed the Simplex Mechanism. Capehart offered this to Wurlitzer where he finally became the head salesman. In 1939 he left Wurlitzer and founded the Packard Manufacturing Co.
Capehart was US Senator from 1945-63 and passed away in 1979.

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