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==Business career== Capehart attained fame as the father of the [[jukebox]] industry.<ref name="Pickett1986">{{cite journal |last= Pickett |first= William B. |author-link=William B. Pickett|date= 1986 |title=Homer E. Capehart: Phonograph Entrepreneur |jstor= 27790996 |journal= Indiana Magazine of History |volume=82 |issue=3 |pages= 264β276 }}</ref> He worked for the company Holcomb and Hoke, which made record players and popcorn machines, until 1928. He started his own company in 1928, and was forced out of the company by investors in 1931. The company was taken over as one of the divisions in the [[Philo Farnsworth]]'s Farnsworth Television and Radio Company in 1939.<ref>''Fortune'' Magazine February 1941</ref> In 1932, Capehart formed a new company called Packard. Packard developed the Simplex mechanism for automatic record changing, and sold the device to [[Wurlitzer]]. The entire company was eventually bought by Wurlitzer.
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