Site of Sprague Electric headquarters in North Adams, Massachusetts; now owned by MASS MoCA
Formerly
Sprague Specialties Company (1926 to 1942)
Company type
Subsidiary of Vishay
Industry
Electronic components
Founded
1926; 98 years ago (1926)
Founders
Robert C. Sprague
Fate
acquired by General Cable in 1978, in turn acquired by Penn Central in 1982, sold off in early 1990s
Headquarters
North Adams, Massachusetts
Products
Capacitors
Sprague Electric Company was an electronic component maker founded by Robert C. Sprague in 1926.
Sprague was best known for making a large line of capacitors used in a wide variety of electrical and electronic in commercial, industrial and military/space applications. Other products include resistive components, magnetic components (transformers and coils), filter assemblies, semiconductors and integrated circuits.[1]
^Library, MCLA. "Sprague Log". MCLA. MCLA. Archived from the original on 2012-01-21. Retrieved 2013-03-06.
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(monolithic IC) chip. Between late 1958 and early 1959, Kurt Lehovec of SpragueElectric Company developed a way to electrically isolate components on a semiconductor...
systems, Frank Sprague invented a multiple unit controller for electric train operation. This accelerated the construction of electric traction railways...
operated on the site from 1860 to 1942, the complex was used by the SpragueElectric company before its conversion. MASS MoCA originally opened with 19...
provided control systems for electric operations. This allowed Sprague to use electric motors to invent the first electric trolley system in 1887–88 in...
forming Edison General Electric Company, which was incorporated in New York on April 24, 1889. The new company acquired SpragueElectric Railway & Motor Company...
replaced more costly horsecars in many cities. By 1889, 110 electric railways incorporating Sprague's equipment had been begun or planned on several continents...
Inventor, Entepreuer, Electric Motor Engineer Ernest L. Sprague (1876–1944), Secretary of State of Rhode Island Robert C. Sprague (1900-1991), Electrical...
announced by Secretary of State Oliver Dowden. Robert C. Sprague 1900-1991 - founder of SpragueElectric company "Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. 2023 Annual Report...
were manufactured in Worcester, Massachusetts in cooperation with SpragueElectric, however by 1974 most of its manufacturing was done at their headquarters...
inscription around its edge at its final size. This mask was given to SpragueElectric Company of North Adams, Massachusetts which imaged it onto a silicon...
wheels to an electrical load. In 1886 the SpragueElectric Railway & Motor Company, founded by Frank J. Sprague, introduced two important inventions: a...
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that element. This patent was assigned to SpragueElectric. Because Lehovec was under salary with Sprague, he was paid only one dollar for this invention...
mill building in the city, and was the first local acquisition of SpragueElectric, a major local employer in the 20th century. The mill was listed on...
University and a long career in electrical engineering for Raytheon, SpragueElectric, and Lockheed Martin, while Barbara, from Talbot County, Georgia, worked...
alongside Ryder's. Whitman began photographing North Adams’ abandoned SpragueElectric Company factory in 1988 “because it would surely be razed.” Documenting...
capacitors were done by the researchers of the SpragueElectric Company. Preston Robinson, Sprague's Director of Research, is considered to be the actual...
named System Dynamics. The work is a result of analyzing operations of SpragueElectric in Massachusetts. The study was the first model of supply chains proving...
of the latter would be used in the Apollo Applications Program. The SpragueElectric Company delivered a 1.5-inch (38 mm) diameter silicon disc to NASA...
Grosvenor Lowrey with Villard as president. It later included the SpragueElectric Railway & Motor Company. Through the fall of 1888 a battle of words...