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
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A phonograph, later called a gramophone, and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of sound.
Emile Berliner
…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, Germany, in 1851 into a Jewish merchant family. He completed…
Thomas Edison with his second cylinder phonograph, photographed by Levin Corbin Handy in Washington, D.C., April 1878
Emile Berliner with the first disk gramophone he developed, in Hanover, Germany
An Edison Standard Phonograph that uses wax cylinders
Wood engraving published in The Illustrated Australian News, depicting a public demonstration of new technology at the Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia) on 8 August 1878.