Locally, its major acquisition was Capitol Aviation, a Springfield aviation sales and service firm, but Sangamo also acquired a number of electronic component manufacturers elsewhere.Ĭompany sales amounted to $68 million in 1966, and total employment (not just in Springfield) totaled 4,800. Sangamo continued to expand after the war. “There was nothing at Sangamo of which he was not aware, and in which he did not take a keen interest.” Navy,” a nephew, Robert Lanphier III, was quoted in a 2008 State Journal-Register article. Sonar,’ as he led this country’s development of shipboard sonar for the U.S. “Chick became known in Washington as ‘Mr.
Charles “Chick” Lanphier ( 1909-78), Robert’s son, took a lead role in the sonar business and himself later became Sangamo’s president and CEO. Sangamo produced anti-submarine sonar and mica and paper capacitors, as well as watt-hour meters, during World War II, and the company’s employment jumped - from 1,200 locally in 1929 to more than 3,000 in 1943. When Jacob Bunn died in 1926, Lanphier replaced him as Sangamo president he remained active in the company until his death. Meanwhile, however, Lanphier had created a direct-current meter, and Sangamo began producing ampere hour meters for use in automobiles (a step that, incidentally, led to Lanphier meeting Thomas Edison). Gutmann sold his interest in 1905, after a court injunction limited Sangamo’s ability to produce his meter. Lanphier … plunged into research into the meter invention.” “His interest aroused by the story of the invention of an electric meter, Mr. Lanphier had with Jacob Bunn (Jr.), head of the Illinois Watch Factory, in 1897,” according to Lanphier’s obituary in the New York Times on Jan. “The Sangamo Electric Company started with a dinner hour conversation Mr. Lanphier (1878-1939), who helped convert Gutmann’s concept into a practical meter. The other key figure was a young engineer, Robert C.
Incorporators were Jacob Bunn Jr., watch company vice president, Bunn’s brother Henry, and Ludwig Gutmann, who owned a patent for an alternating-current electric watt meter. Sangamo was incorporated as a separate firm in 1899, after several years as an Illinois Watch subsidiary.
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