Emile Berliner
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Emile Berliner was a German-American inventor and businessman who invented the lateral-cut flat disc record, also known as a "gramophone record," used with a gramophone. He founded the United States G
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1897 Berliner Gramophone record
E. Berliner Toy Gramophone, 1889 (collection Musée des ondes Emile Berliner, Montreal)
Emile Berliner with a veiled woman
Phonograph record
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A phonograph record or a vinyl record is a disc-shaped analog sound storage medium with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts near the outside edge and ends near the center
Emile Berliner
…Emile Berliner (born Emil Berliner; May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929) was a German-American inventor and businessman who invented the lateral-cut flat disc record, also known as a "gramophone record," used with a gramophone. He founded the United States Gramophone Company in 1894. Berliner was born in Hanover…
Three vinyl records of different formats, from left to right: a 12-inch LP, a 10-inch LP, a 7-inch single
Technicians recording aviator Amy Johnson, Sydney, 1930
Emile Berliner with disc record gramophone
Hungarian Pathé record, 90 to 100 rpm