Emile Berliner with disc record gramophone.

Emile Berliner (May 20, 1851 - August 3, 1929) was an inventor, best known for developing the disc record gramophone (phonograph in American English). Image File history File links Download high resolution version (915x685, 78 KB) Summary Emile Berliner with disc record gramophone - photograph taken between 1910 and 1929. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (915x685, 78 KB) Summary Emile Berliner with disc record gramophone - photograph taken between 1910 and 1929. ... May 20 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ... 1851 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... An inventor is a person who creates new inventions, typically technical devices such as mechanical, electrical or software devices or methods. ... 33â…“ LP vinyl record album from the 1960s A gramophone record (also phonograph record, or simply record) is an analogue sound recording medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove. ... Edison cylinder phonograph from about 1899 The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s. ... American English (AmE) is the dialect of the English language used mostly in the United States of America. ...

Born Emil Berliner in Hanover, Germany, he emigrated to the United States of America in 1870, where he established himself in Washington, D.C.. 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 acquired by the Bell Telephone Company, one of the first types of microphone. Berliner worked for Bell Telephone in Boston from 1877 to 1883, when he returned to Washington and established himself as a private researcher. Hanover (German: Hannover []), on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany. ... 1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Nickname: the District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Official website: http://www. ... A schematic representation of hearing. ... The telephone or phone (Greek: tele = far away and phone = voice) is a telecommunications device which is used to transmit and receive sound (most commonly voice and speech) across distance. ... Edison cylinder phonograph ca. ... Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 - August 2, 1922) was a scientist, inventor, and founder of the Bell telephone company. ... A microphone, sometimes called a mic (pronounced mike), is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal. ... Boston is a town and small port c. ... 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Emile Berliner became a United States citizen in 1881. 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1886 Berliner began experimenting with methods of sound recording. He was granted his first patent for what he called the "gramophone" in 1887. The first gramophone recorded using horizontal modulation on a cylinder coated with a low resistance material such as lamp black, subsequently fixed with varnish and then copied by photoengraving on a metal playback cylinder. He then began work on a simplified system to record on to discs, rather than the phonograph cylinders then in use. Within a few years he was marketing his technology to toy companies. However, he hoped to develop his device as more than a mere toy, and in 1895 succeeded in getting a group of businessmen to put up 25,000 United States dollars of capital and incorporated the Berliner Gramophone Company. 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... Methods and media for sound recording are varied and have undergone significant changes between the first time sound was actually recorded for later playback until now. ... A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter (substance) (known as an invention) which is new, inventive, and... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... Modulation is the process of varying a carrier signal, typically a sinusoidal signal, in order to use that signal to convey information. ... Soot, also called lampblack or carbon black, is a dark powdery deposit of unburned fuel residues, usually composed mainly of amorphous carbon, that accumulates in chimneys, automobile mufflers and other surfaces exposed to smoke—especially from the combustion of carbon-rich organic fuels in the lack of sufficient oxygen. ... Varnish is a finish applied to wood or other surfaces in order to provide a clear, hard, durable, protective finish. ... Photoengraving is a process of engraving using photographic techniques. ... The earliest method of recording and reproducing sound was on phonograph cylinders. ... Teddy bear A toy is something to play with, for children, adults or both, or pets. ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... This article is about general United States currency. ... Berliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc gramophone records (as opposed to the earlier phonograph cylinder records). ...

Emile Berliner with an unidentified woman.

A problem with early gramophones was difficulty in having the turntable rotate at a steady speed for playback. Engineer Eldridge R. Johnson helped solve this problem by designing clock-work spring wound motors. In 1901 Berliner and Johnson teamed up to found the Victor Talking Machine Company. Emile Berliner Image is in the public domain and part of the American Memory project at: http://rs6. ... Emile Berliner Image is in the public domain and part of the American Memory project at: http://rs6. ... The Victor Company is now in possession of many patents and secret processes, but our greatest secret process is this - Eldridge R. Johnson Eldridge Johnson always had a keen interest in the working of mechanical objects, and even more so in the idea of discovery. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The Victor Talking Machine Company (1901 - 1929) was a United States corporation, the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. ...

Berliner also invented a new type of loom for mass-production of cloth, acoustic tile, and experimented with an early version of the helicopter said by some accounts to have successfully lifted two men off the ground as early as 1909, although other accounts put the date a decade later. In any case, working with his son Henry Berliner, they demonstrated a working helicopter for the United States Army on July 16, 1922. A Turkish woman in Konya works at a traditional loom. ... The Bell 206 of Canadian Helicopters Robinson Helicopter Company (USA) R44, a four seat development of the R22 A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Henry Adler Berliner (December 13, 1895 - May 1, 1970) was a United States aircraft and helicopter pioneer. ... The Bell 206 of Canadian Helicopters Robinson Helicopter Company (USA) R44, a four seat development of the R22 A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors. ... The United States Army is the branch of the United States armed forces that has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining. ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

Berliner was also active in advocating improvements in public health and sanitation. Sanitation vehicle in New York City. ...

Emile Berliner died of a heart attack at the age of 78. A myocardial infarction occurs when an atherosclerotic plaque slowly builds up in the inner lining of a coronary artery and then suddenly ruptures, totally occluding the artery and preventing blood flow downstream. ...

External links

• Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry from Library of Congress site
• Emile Berliner and the Gramophone on University of San Diego site
• Shenece Gaby Grace care 2006 19 may emman matt grey aircraft/berliner.htm National Air and Space Museum page WHEN IS THE TIME TO LOVE on the Berliner helicopters
• Berliner's 1887 Challenge to the industry (see item 11)

• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/berlhtml/berlsp.html

• http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/13.html

Patents

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• UK Patent 15232 filed November 8, 1887
• U.S. Patent 0372,786 Gramophone (horizontal recording), original filed May 1887, refiled September 1887, issued November 8, 1887
• U.S. Patent 0382,790 Process of Producing Records of Sound (recorded on a thin wax coating over metal or glass surface, subsequently chemically etched), filed March 1888, issued May 1888
• U.S. Patent 0548,623 Sound Record and Method of Making Same (duplicate copies of flat, zinc disks by electroplating), filed March 1893, issued October 1895
• U.S. Patent 0564,586 Gramophone (recorded on underside of flat, transparent disk), filed November 7, 1887, issued July 1896