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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. He founded the United States Gramophone Company in 1894. [1]
In 1918, Emile Berliner's son Herbert Berliner left Berliner Gram-O-Phone and founded the Compo Company. [12] Herbert's younger brother, Edgar, continued as chief executive of Berliner Gram-o-phone. In 1924, Canadian Berliner was bought out by USA's Victor and became Victor Talking Machine Company of Canada.
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 ...
1800: Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the battery. 1804: Thomas Young: ... German American inventor Emile Berliner invented the gramophone record. 1888:
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.
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Ten years later, the early experiments of Emile Berliner, the creator of the disc Gramophone, employed a recording machine that was in essence a disc form of the phonautograph. It traced a clear sound-modulated spiral line through a thin black coating on a glass disc.
1877 : Thomas Edison and Emile Berliner simultaneously invented the first prototypes of the phonograph; 1888 : Thomas Edison introduces the electric motor-driven phonograph; 1896 : Edwin S. Votey completes the first Pianola; 1898 : Valdemar Poulsen patents the Telegraphone; 1906 : Thaddeus Cahill introduces the Telharmonium to the public