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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 1897; Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover, Germany, in 1898; and Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada in Montreal in 1899 (chartered in 1904). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emile Berliner has received more than 524,088 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Emile Berliner is the 52nd most popular inventor (up from 53rd in 2019), the 455th most popular biography from Germany (down from 412th in 2019) and the 9th 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 52 out of 354Before him are Karl Drais, John Herschel, William G. Morgan, Willis Carrier, Hans Lippershey, and John Boyd Dunlop. After him are Wilhelm Maybach, Frank Whittle, Isaac Singer, Adam Opel, John Deere, and Louis Blériot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Emile Berliner ranks 4Before him are Ferdinand Foch, Arthur Evans, and Empress Myeongseong. After him are Louise of Sweden, Margherita of Savoy, Georg Jellinek, Ismail Gaspirali, Peder Severin Krøyer, Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, and Léon Bourgeois. Among people deceased in 1929, Emile Berliner ranks 7Before him are Karl Benz, Georges Clemenceau, Ferdinand Foch, Gustav Stresemann, Herman Hollerith, and Bernhard von Bülow. After him are Sergei Diaghilev, Wilhelm Maybach, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Prince Maximilian of Baden, Thorstein Veblen, and Aby Warburg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Emile Berliner ranks 455 out of 6,142Before him are Josef Kramer (1906), Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895), Erhard Milch (1892), Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (1573), Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1817), and Maximilian von Weichs (1881). After him are Duchess Helene in Bavaria (1834), Fritz Todt (1891), Otto of Bavaria (1848), Franz Boas (1858), Emil Nolde (1867), and Jean Paul (1763).

Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Emile Berliner ranks 9Before him are Nikolaus Otto (1832), Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850), Werner von Siemens (1816), Konrad Zuse (1910), Karl Drais (1785), and Hans Lippershey (1570). After him are Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Adam Opel (1837), Joseph Pilates (1883), Johann Philipp Reis (1834), Theobald Boehm (1794), and Alfred Krupp (1812).