Emile Berliner

Inventor

1851 – 1929

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Who was Emile Berliner?

Emile Berliner or Emil Berliner was a German-born American inventor. He is best known for developing the disc record gramophone. He founded the Berliner Gramophone Company in 1895, The Gramophone Company in London, England, in 1897, Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover, Germany, in 1898 and Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada in Montreal in 1899.

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Born
May 20, 1851
Hanover
Also known as
  • Émile Berliner
  • Emil Berliner
Parents
Spouses
Children
Religion
  • Judaism
Ethnicity
  • Jewish people
  • Germans
Nationality
  • United States of America
  • Germany
Profession
Education
  • Cooper Union
Lived in
  • United States of America
    (1870 - )
  • Hanover
    (1851 - 1870)
Died
Aug 3, 1929
Washington, D.C.
Resting place
Rock Creek Cemetery

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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