Emile Berliner
Emile Berliner · Technology & Engineering
Gramophone
1851, Hanover, Germany — 1929, Washington, D.C., United States
Germany · United States
Emile Berliner is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Gramophone
Emile Berliner invented the gramophone and the flat disc record in 1887, replacing Edison's cylinder and creating the format that dominated recorded sound for a century. A German-born inventor who emigrated to the United States, he also developed an improved telephone microphone. He was born into a Jewish family in Hanover.
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Gramophone
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