Elmer Hentz

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Date of birth

08/22/1900

Date of death

12/14/1997

Elmer Hentz

Biography

Elmer G. Hentz was the University of Cincinnati (Ohio) co-op student who, along with fellow UC student and classmate Dorman Israel, developed the first commercially-available Crosley radio receiver for Cincinnati industrialist Powel Crosley Jr.. That individual product, coming as it did at the dawn of the radio age, laid the groundwork for the growth of the Crosley Corporation.