May 20, 2018
Emile Berliner (May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929), originally Emil Berliner, was a German-born American inventor.
He is best known for inventing the flat disc phonograph record (called a “gramophone record” in British and American English) and the Gramophone. 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. [Wikipedia]
