Henry Lindenberg and his brother, Charles, had been companions with Mitchell Lilley and John Siebert in M.C. Lilley & Co. in Columbus.
Based in 1865 by these 4 Civil Struggle veterans, who had been members of the fraternal IOOF (Odd Fellows) group, the corporate produced “regalia,” equivalent to swords, banners, flags, emblems and uniforms for secret and fraternal societies and organizations just like the Odd Fellows and Masons, in addition to uniforms for police and navy items.
The corporate began on South Excessive Road earlier than relocating to a number of massive buildings on the nook of Lengthy and North Sixth streets and have become the biggest regalia producer on the planet.
Henry Lindenberg and his spouse, Susan, had three kids – Louis, Theodore and Charlotte – elevating them of their residence on South Third in German Village. Theodore Lindenberg graduated from Cornell College after which went to work for M.C. Lilley, filling numerous government capacities, turning into president in 1928, a place he held till 1937.
When he returned to Columbus after faculty and began with Lilley, Theodore Lindenberg joined his cousins Frank, Paul and Carl (sons of Charles Lindenberg) to construct properties on property that they’d bought and subdivided within the village of Marble Cliff, which they known as the Nation Membership Addition.
Architect Frank Packard, who had earlier designed Charles Lindenberg’s mansion on West Broad Road, now residence to the Columbus Basis, was employed to design all 4 properties. Theodore Lindenberg’s was the 1906 hacienda type mansion at 1087 Lincoln Street.
Relationship again to his youth, Theodore Lindenberg developed a ardour for movement photos and the know-how related to the seize and projection of flicks. Even whereas he was serving as president of M.C. Lilley, he designed completely different movement image associated merchandise and areas, making use of for and receiving quite a few U.S. patents for his concepts.
One was for a sound reproducing system that would present higher sound in areas equivalent to a theater. One other that he filed in 1934 was for a film theatre with “a plurality of auditoriums of comparatively small measurement” that used a single projector with an advanced mirror system, which he additionally patented, to mission into each auditoriums.
His son, Theodore Jr., was born in 1911. As he was rising up, he mentioned lots of his father’s concepts with him, and from these discussions he additionally developed an curiosity in motion pictures, significantly with respect to sound replica. He graduated in mechanical engineering from Ohio State in 1930, and after commencement he collaborated along with his father on early multi-unit loudspeaker techniques. He developed 16mm sound-on-film recording gear and extra projection improvements, incomes his personal patents for these concepts (some had been joint patents along with his father.)
His father was the important thing operator of the Grandview Theater, which opened in 1926, when he used his patents because the mannequin for the Bexley Theatre, with two auditoriums every seating about 250. They opened it within the fall of 1935, garnering nationwide consideration for the design.
From 1936 to 1940 Theodore Lindenberg Jr. operated his personal recording studios in Columbus and developed early moving-coil and photoelectric pickups, early photo-finish cameras for racetrack use, loudspeakers and optical recording techniques.
In 1940 he joined the Fairchild Aviation Company as lead engineer on disc recording gear, guided missiles and plane hearth management gear. After the struggle he joined the newly fashioned Fairchild Recording Company and later grew to become the chief design engineer with Pickering and Firm, designing turntables and needle cartridges. Theodore Lindenberg Sr. died in 1941 and his son in 1994.
Each the Grandview Theater and the Lindenberg hacienda may be discovered on the free Historical past Walks app, accessible at ghmchs.org.
