Emile Berliner
(1851-1929)
German / American inventor of the gramophone and disc for record player
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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 vertical-cut flat disc record (called a "gramophone record" in British and American English) used with a phonograph. He founded the United States Gramophone Company in 1894, The Gramophone Company in London, England, in 1897, Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover, Germany, in 1898, Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada in Montreal in 1899 (chartered in 1904), and Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901 with Eldridge Johnson.
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20 May 1851 Hanover, Germany
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3 August 1929 (aged 78) Washington, D.C., United States
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| Zodiac | Taurus |
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