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Emile Berliner
Telephone transmitter innovator
American Bell · Bell Telephone | Associates: Alexander Graham Bell, Francis Blake, Thomas A. Watson, Charles Williams, Jr., Thomas B. Doolittle
Emile Berliner (born Emil Berliner; May 20, 1851 – August 3, 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 an apprenticeship to become a merchant, as was family tradition. While his real hobby was invention, he worked as an accountant to make ends meet. To avoid being drafted in the Franco-Prussian War, Berliner migrated to the… More on Wikipedia →
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