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Emile Berliner

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Interesting Emile Berliner Facts

 

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Emile Berliner - Auld Lang Syne - 1890 (First recording)

 

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Emile Berliner Record 1895 - Sidewalks of New York - George J. Gaskin Victor II Gramophone

 

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Old Gramophone Emile Berliner Musée des Ondes

 

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Emile Berliner, the inventor of the commercial disc record "Twinkle Little Star." Recorded 1890

Emile Berliner, originally Emil Berliner, was a German-born American inventor. He is best known for inventing the flat disc record 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, and Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901 with Eldridge Johnson.