Emile Berliner Inventor of Gramophone
Biography of Emile Berliner
Early Life
Emile Berliner inventor of Gramophone was an inventor as well as founder of a company. He was born in the year of 1851 on May 20 in Hanover which is located in Kingdom of Hanover. He was an American from the descent but was born in Germany. He belonged to a Jewish merchant family and was brought up in his own family. As it was a tradition and custom of his family that it was necessary for everyone to be a merchant, so that is why he completed an apprenticeship for that. There is no prominent and detailed record found about his education
Career
He was interested in making inventions so that was the reason that he started his formal career as an accountant. As in those times, Franco Prussian war was on the go so he didn’t want to be dragged in that and hence keeping this thing in mind, he moved to United States of America. He had migrated with one of his father’s friend who had a shop in Washington District of Columbia at that time. Emile started his job over there in that shop. Later on, he left that job and migrated to New York and did many small and part time works to earn his living.
Inventor of Gramophone
As mentioned earlier, he was interested in inventions so he started his formal education too there in New York in Cooper Union Institute where he stared to study the physics. Later on, his interest was built up in the telephone and its audio system which was new at that time. Working in this field, he kept practicing and hence succeeded in invention of a much better form of telephone transmitter which he considered as a phonograph. As he had gotten the citizenship of America in those days so he was awarded the patent of his invention in the year of 1887 and it was officially named as “Gramophone”.
Gramophone
Emile Berliner is widely credited as inventor of gramophone and hence is considered as an important scientist of the field. The invention “Gramophone” was named as such for the first time in 1887 after the first patent he got. Gramophone is also known as phonograph and it is derived from a Greek word. This is a kind of device which is used for the recording. It can record and reproduce the sound recordings. There is a rotating cylinder inside the gramophone which holds all the important function. The vibrations of sounds are saved in the shape of waveforms as a groove in that rotating cylinder or disk of the gramophone. The surface which was recorded is rotated later on and hence in this way, a stylus converts those vibrations in the form of playback sound again.
Death
He died in the year of 1929 on August 03rd. He was almost 78 years of age at the time of his death.
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