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Emile Berliner (May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929) originally Emil Berliner, was a German-American inventor. He is best known for inventing the lateral-cut flat disc record (called a "gramophone record" in British and American English) used with a gramophone .
1897 Berliner Gramophone Record by George W. Johnson. Berliner Gramophone – its discs identified with an etched-in "E. Berliner's Gramophone" as the logo – was the first (and for nearly ten years the only) disc record label in the world.
In the 1890s, Emile Berliner initiated the transition from phonograph cylinders to flat discs with a spiral groove running from the periphery to near the centre, coining the term gramophone for disc record players, which is predominantly used in many languages.
The Gramophone Company was founded in April 1898 by William Barry Owen and Edmund Trevor Lloyd Wynne Williams, commissioned by Emil Berliner, in London. [5] Owen was acting as agent for Emile Berliner, inventor of the gramophone record, whilst Williams provided the finances.
Emile Berliner improved the quality of recordings while his manufacturing associate Eldridge R. Johnson, who owned a machine shop in Camden, New Jersey, eventually improved the mechanism of the gramophone with a spring motor and a speed regulating governor, resulting in a sound quality equal to Edison's cylinders.
Etching the Voice: Emile Berliner and the First Commercial Gramophone Discs, 1889-1895 (2021) The Moaninest Moan of Them All: The Jazz Saxophone of Loren McMurray, 1920-1922 (2023) Best Album Notes [5] Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s (2007) Debate '08: Taft and Bryan Campaign on the Edison Phonograph (2008)
Recording of Bell's voice on a wax disc in 1885, identified in 2013 [more details] Emile Berliner with disc record gramophone The next major technical development was the invention of the gramophone record , generally credited to Emile Berliner [ by whom? ] and patented in 1887, [ 16 ] though others had demonstrated similar disk apparatus ...
Between 1888 and ca. 1892-1894, Emile Berliner recorded a few 5" records under the toy company Krammer & Reinhardt. In 1980, the British band Squeeze released a 5-inch 33 1 ⁄ 3 RPM vinyl recording of "If I Didn't Love You", backed with "Another Nail In My Heart" (A&M Records AM-1616 / SP-4802).