Sprague Electric Company was an electronic component maker founded by Robert C Sprague in 1926.
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22 Facts About Sprague Electric
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When local residents heard the company was expanding, Sprague Electric received all kinds of incentives from the banks and other businesses to relocate there.
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Sprague Electric chose the area because he wanted to open a shop where his father Frank had grown up.
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Sprague Electric continued to make capacitor and resistive components to meet military requirements of quality and reliability.
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Robert C Sprague was a member of War Production Board for the Advisory Committee on Capacitors .
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Sprague Electric products were found in stores selling electronic parts, and the electronics servicing business.
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Sprague Electric capacitors were listed as a recommended replacement part.
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Sprague Electric continued to expand its product base by opening a semiconductor plant in New Hampshire in 1957 and a magnetics plant in California.
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Robert C Sprague continued as Chairman of the Board and his brother Julian as President.
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Contemporary advances in the integrated circuit and thin film technologies, Sprague Electric saw a need to move to support and design products around these new technologies.
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Sprague Electric understood this as the future trend in electronics; he opened more plants in the United States and developed a worldwide network of sales offices.
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Sprague Electric got into the semiconductor business in the late 1950s, somewhat later than the already established semiconductor firms.
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Sprague Electric wanted to be an early participant into this young product.
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In 1965 Sprague Electric acquired Micro Tech, a manufacturer of semiconductor equipment for fabrication.
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John Sprague Electric was a graduate of Stanford University, and specialized in semiconductor development.
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Sprague Electric made cuts to minimize costs, including reducing the labor force and shuttering some of its North Adams operations.
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John Sprague Electric tried to bring the employees and management closer together.
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The Sprague Electric Log increased its frequency of publication, and again emphasized the need to work together.
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Sprague Electric was spun off from Penn Central in 1987 under the holding company Sprague Electric Technologies.
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In 1990, Sprague sold its semiconductor unit to Sanken Electric of Japan.
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Sprague Electric components had a long history of name recognition, quality, and brand loyalty.
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