E.S.I. was started by Clyde
Daniels back before 1930 when he was selling all types of material he
then progressed to Military surplus after World War 2 when his son Dick
joined him after serving on PT boats in the Navy and Dick mother Ida
Maye completed the family operation.
The third
generation Rick and his Uncle Clyde and cousin Gary Snyder started in
the 1960's and have since moved from their world famous downtown
location on Prospect Avenue and East 14th Street to Broadway
Avenue with it's own parking lot about 6 years ago.
Now Gary is in
charge of buying and selling the mountains of parts and if we do not
have what you need it is probably because we just sold it last week
or last year. There are rows upon rows of test equipment in our two-story
century old warehouse, just across the Cuyahoga River from Jacob Field
and Gund Arena. My grandfather sold Heathkit's first resistors and my
father bought out much of Magnavox when they closed down their Chicago
plant to move their manufacturing overseas.
We are very
proud of our history of involvement in helping so many North Eastern
Ohio companies that got their start and are continuing to build
specialized and sensitive electronic instrumentation and medical
technology in Cleveland; partly because of their engineers access to
such a variety of the highest quality electronic parts at the surplus
prices. We have purchased from most of the major Aerospace companies
during the cold war space race. The companies include Allen Bradley,
Bailey Controls, GE, Gould Labs, Hickok, Electrical Instrument Co., IBM,
Kodak, Lockheed, Los Alamos Labs, NASA, Ohio Scientific, Technicare,
Tektronix, Triplett, XEROX, and so many other sources whom still wish to
remain confidential and passed that really interesting test equipment
and those highest quality parts along to our loyal customers in Ohio,
the US, and internationally.
All of the
Schools, Universities, Hospitals, and Broadcast stations have at one
time or another counted on us to keep them running. Sometimes engineers
would come in and purchase competitors products to open them up and see
what the "other guys" way of doing things was. The inventors of the
CB radio, thermal paper Fax machine, Bug "Zappers" and so many other
people we have not seen in decades, and cannot immediately remember were
all customers and friends of ours.
Now, with the advent of the
Internet we are specializing on electro-mechanical parts and
semiconductors that are not as available now as they were in the past,
At least not to the "little guy". Please take the time to check us
out. We welcome your comments and will strive to improve our inventory
and service to keep American's in the business of inventing.
Kind Regards and Stay Alkaline and Healthy,
Rick
- President
