Carl A. Vossberg Jr.

Carl A. Vossberg died on March 9, 2008, in Eustis, Florida. Electron-Machine Corporation continues today under the third generation of Vossberg leadership providing refractometers in the pulp & paper, food, and chemical processing industries.

The early efforts of Electron-Machine Corporation were directed toward solving specific problems of a custom nature involving mainly engineering development and limited production. These practices were carried into the early 1960s when a series of products appeared as a result of these custom applications. In 1963, it became apparent that the efforts of Electron-Machine Corporation were divided into a systems capability and a product line. With the limited resources available, Vossberg had to make a choice: Vossberg decided to concentrate Electron-Machine Corporation's total effort towards further development and exploitation of its product line.

In 1952, Electron-Machine Corporation moved to Umatilla, Florida, where operations continue today. The abundant living attributed to Florida influenced Vossberg's decision to move the company to Umatilla, where laboratory buildings were constructed between two beautiful lakes to house the electronic and chemical sections. The location was chosen because it was “conducive to scientific research and can account for the Laboratories producing near miracles.”

After the war, Vossberg set out to apply electronics technology to industrial applications. Electron-Machine Corporation was formed in 1946 for the purpose of designing automatic electronic gaging and indicating equipment. The company was established in the back of a radiator repair shop in Lynbrook, New York. Instruments for diameter and thickness measurements for steel and cable products were conceived, developed, and licensed to other manufacturers. These instruments included the first commercial x-ray thickness gage, optical cable diameter gages, and an industrial process control computer. In 1950 he, in partnership, formed the Industrial Gauges Corporation and later established Research Developments, Inc., as a subsidiary. This expansion provided the manufacturing facilities for the products developed by the Electron-Machine Company.

Carl A. Vossberg, Jr., (born July 16, 1918 - March 9, 2008) was an American electrical engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur in the electronic instrumentation industry. He is known for more than 30 technical patents in the area of refractometry, measurement, and control. Vossberg also founded Electron-Machine Corporation, the company responsible for the introduction of inline process refractometers as a measuring system for the pulp & paper, food, and chemical processing industries.