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The Beryllium Corporation of America, founded by Lester Hofheimer in 1927, was the first commercially producing company of beryllium-containing materials. Andre w Gahagan, decided to get into the beryllium industry in 1929 and formed the Bery llium Development Corporation, and later, gained control of the Beryllium Corporation of America and changed its name to the beryllium corporation(Berylco) in the year 1932. The patents and founding of several beryllium corporations sky-rocket ed between the years 1921, when Brush Laboratories was started to 1932 when Andre w Gahagan was trying to start a small monopoly.
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