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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.
Emile (originally Emil) Berliner was born in Hanover, Germany, on May 20, 1851. He was one of thirteen children born to Samuel and Sarah Friedman Berliner, two of whom died in infancy. His father was a merchant and a Talmudic scholar, and his mother was an amateur musician.
May 16, 2024 · Emil Berliner (born May 20, 1851, Hannover, Hanover [Germany]—died Aug. 3, 1929, Washington, D.C., U.S.) was a German-born American inventor who made important contributions to telephone technology and developed the phonograph record disc. Berliner immigrated to the United States in 1870.
For years following the breakup of the Berliner Gramophone Company, Emile Berliner refused to disband the United States Gramophone Company in Washington, D.C., even though it was a company in name only. He retained a great interest in the continuing growth of the record industry and obtained patents on some improvements.
In 1887, Emil Berliner (1851–1921) invented the gramophone, the mechanical predecessor to the electric record player. Later, with the shellac record, he developed a medium that allowed music...
This collection showcases the work of Emile Berliner, a prominent inventor at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Overlooked by today's historians, Berliner's creative genius rivaled that of his better-known contemporaries Thomas Alva Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, and, like the works of these two ...
Emile Berliner Inventor of the Gramophone. Emile Berliner (May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929). Invented the Gramophone and Flat Disc Record. Berliner was born in Wolfenbuttel, near Hannover, Germany. At the age of 14, Berliner worked for a printer.
