Career
Harry Shoemaker was born near Millville, Pennsylvania, May 11, 1879. He was educated at the Greenwood Seminary in Millville, the Normal School in Muncy, Pa., and Pennsylvania State College. In October 1899, he became associated with G. P. Gehring of Philadelphia in wireless work; in 1900 they, with others, organized the American Wireless Telephone and Telegraph Company, the first radio incorporation in the United States. The patent basis for this corporation included the Dolbear wireless patent issued in 1886 and Shoemaker applications. Mr. Shoemaker was Chief Engineer. In 1901 that company built experimental stations in New Jersey and reported the Columbia vs. the Shamrock yacht races by wireless. From 1902 to 1904 he was Chief Engineer of the Consolidated Wireless Telephone and Telegraph Company; 1904–1908 he was principal owner of the International Telegraph Construction Company building radio apparatus for the U. S. Government and others; 1908–1912 he was a prominent engineer with the United Wireless Telegraph Company; 1913–1918 he was a member of the engineering staff of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America; 1918-1921 he was Chief Engineer of the Liberty Electric Corporation manufacturing radio transmitters and receivers; 1921–1929 he was Chief Engineer of P. R. Mallory and Company. When the P. R. Mallory Company moved their manufacturing activities to Indiana, Mr. Shoemaker resigned to remain in the east on independent work. In May 1932 he was again employed by P. R. Mallory and Company on research work on dry plate rectifiers at the laboratory of Samuel Ruben (founded Duracell Battery) in New Rochelle, New York. On August 23, 1932, while conducting this research in that laboratory he suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and fell dead.
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