Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Emile Berliner, Jewish Inventor, Solves the Problem of Acoustics
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Emile Berliner
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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Born 20 May 1851 · Died 3 August 1929 · Q71004
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1994).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Grammy Trustees Award (1987).
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1929· 3 entries
Died 1929-08-03.
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Berliner died of a heart attack at his home at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D
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Won Franklin Medal (1929).
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1926· 1 entry
Henry Berliner founded the Berliner Aircraft Company, which merged to become Berliner-Joyce Aircraft in 1929
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1922· 1 entry
Berliner and his son, Henry, demonstrated a helicopter for the US Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics
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1914· 1 entry
Also advocated for improvements in public health and sanitation
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1913· 1 entry
Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1913).
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1909· 1 entry
Berliner founded the Gyro Motor Company in Washington, D
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1908· 1 entry
Established a scholarship program, the Sarah Berliner Research Fellowship, in honor of his mother
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1901· 1 entry
The United States Court of Appeals would declare Berliner's patent void and awarded Edison full rights to the invention
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1897· 1 entry
Awarded John Scott Award (1897).
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1894· 1 entry
Persuaded a group of businessmen to invest $25,000, with which he started the United States Gramophone Company
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1890· 1 entry
A Berliner licensee in Germany was manufacturing a toy Gramophone and five-inch hard rubber discs (stamped-out replicas of etched zinc master discs), but because key U
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1877· 1 entry
Where he became a United States citizen four years later
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1870· 2 entries
With a friend of his father's, in whose shop he worked in Washington, D
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Career landmark: emigration.
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1851· 1 entry
Born 1851-05-20.
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