Emile Berliner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Emile Berliner

German-born American inventor of the phonograph

Date of Birth: 20-May-1851

Place of Birth: Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 03-Aug-1929

Profession: engineer, entrepreneur, inventor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Emile Berliner (May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929), originally Emil Berliner, was a German-born American inventor.
He is best known for inventing the flat disc record (called a "gramophone record" in British and American English) 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 (chartered in 1904), and Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901 with Eldridge Johnson.