Historical Figure
Emile Berliner
d. 1929
German-born American inventor (1851–1929)
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Death
1929 August 3, 1929 →Biography
Emile Berliner 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;
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German-American inventor, who is best known for inventing the vertical-cut flat disc record (called a "gramophone record" in British and American English) used with a phonograph. (d. 1929)
May 20 →en los Estados Unidos, el inventor judeoalemán Emile Berliner patenta el gramófono.
November 8 →German-American inventor, who is best known for inventing the vertical-cut flat disc record (called a "gramophone record" in British and American English) used with a phonograph. (b. 1851)
August 3 →More from the Interwar & WWII
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