Emile Berliner

Emile Berliner , originally Emil Berliner, was a GermanAmerican inventor. He is best known for inventing the phonograph record and the 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 Gramophone Company of Canada in Montreal in 1899 .

Berliner was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1851 into a Jewish merchant family. Though raised in a Jewish family, he later became an agnostic. He completed an apprenticeship to become a merchant, as was family tradition. While his real hobby was invention, he worked as an accountant to make ends meet. To avoid being drafted for the FrancoPrussian War, Berliner migrated to the United States of America in 1870 with a friend of his fathers, in whose shop he worked in Washington, D.C.. He moved to New York and, living off temporary work, such as doing the paper route and cleaning bottles, he studied physics at night at the Cooper Union Institute. After some time working in a livery stable, he became interested in the new audio technology of the telephone and phonograph, and invented an improved telephone transmitter . The patent was acquired by the Bell Telephone Company . But on February 27, 1901 the United States Court of Appeal declared the patent void. Berliner subsequently moved to Bost

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