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Emile Berliner

1851 - 1929

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Emile Berliner (May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929) originally Emil Berliner, was a German-American inventor. He is best known for inventing the lateral-cut flat disc record (called a "gramophone record" in British and American English) used with a gramophone. He founded the United States Gramophone Company in 1894; The Gramophone Company in London, England, in 1898; Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover, Germany, in 1898; and Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada in Montreal in 1899 (chartered in 1904). Berliner also invented what was probably the first radial aircraft engine (1908), a helicopter (1919), and acoustical tiles (1920s). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emile Berliner is the 61st most popular inventor (down from 54th in 2019), the 613th most popular biography from Germany (down from 488th in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Inventor.

Berliner is most famous for his invention of the phonograph.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Emile Berliner ranks 61 out of 426. Before him are Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, Adam Opel, Charles Goodyear, William G. Morgan, John Boyd Dunlop, and Louis Blériot. After him are Willis Carrier, Étienne Lenoir, Theodore Maiman, Louis Renault, Isaac Singer, and Alberto Santos-Dumont.

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Among people born in 1851, Emile Berliner ranks 9. Before him are Arthur Evans, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Empress Myeongseong, George Francis FitzGerald, Léon Bourgeois, and Louise of Sweden. After him are Margherita of Savoy, Ismail Gaspirali, Peder Severin Krøyer, Georg Jellinek, Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Vincent d'Indy. Among people deceased in 1929, Emile Berliner ranks 13. Before him are Herman Hollerith, Charles Cooley, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Bernhard von Bülow, Prince Maximilian of Baden, and Sergei Diaghilev. After him are Émile Loubet, Thomas Burke, Maria Christina of Austria, Aby Warburg, Princess Viktoria of Prussia, and Otto Liman von Sanders.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Emile Berliner ranks 613 out of 7,253. Before him are Gustav Heinemann (1899), Samuel von Pufendorf (1632), Robert Ritter von Greim (1892), Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia (1892), Katherine Oppenheimer (1910), and Erich Hoepner (1886). After him are Horst Wessel (1907), Paul Breitner (1951), Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1908), Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710), Feodor Lynen (1911), and Hans von Seeckt (1866).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Emile Berliner ranks 11. Before him are Hans Lippershey (1570), Werner von Siemens (1816), Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Karl Drais (1785), Konrad Zuse (1910), and Adam Opel (1837). After him are Joseph Pilates (1883), Johann Philipp Reis (1834), Theobald Boehm (1794), Hans von Ohain (1911), Alfred Krupp (1812), and Hugo Schmeisser (1884).

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