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		Emile Berliner invented the microphone that became part of the first Bell telephones, and his gramophone was the first record player to use disks.
		Berliner's gramophone differed from its contemporaries in that it used a flat disk to record sound rather than the cylinder proposed by Edison.
		Berliner's inspiration came when a telegraph operator told him that more current passed as one pressed harder on the key.
	www.invent.org /hall_of_fame/13.html (316 words)

	Berliner
		Berliner employed the radio and distributed free educational literature on "scalding" milk to reduce the scourge of deadly diseases that killed one third of all children.
		Berliner, convinced that many infant's diseases were caused by the ingestion of raw milk, founded the "Society for the Prevention of Sickness" in 1891 and launched a widespread campaign for "scalding" milk before its ingestion.
		Berliner made this fellowship available when women's position in colleges and universities was far from being so assured as now." Emile Berliner's interests and philanthropies extended to his support of the rebuilding of Palestine and his very active support of Hebrew University.
	chem.ch.huji.ac.il /~eugeniik/history/berliner.html (5806 words)

	Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry: Home Page
		Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry is a selection of more than 400 items from the Emile Berliner Papers and 108 Berliner sound recordings from the Library of Congress's Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
		Berliner (1851-1929), an immigrant and a largely self-educated man, was responsible for the development of the microphone and the flat recording disc and gramophone player.
		Although the focus of this online collection is on the gramophone and its recordings, it includes much evidence of Berliner's other interests, such as information on his businesses, his crusades for the pasteurization of milk and other public-health issues, his philanthropy, his musical composition, and even his poetry.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/berlhtml/berlhome.html (281 words)

	Emile Berliner - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Emile Berliner (May 20, 1851 - August 3, 1929) was an inventor, best known for developing the disc record gramophone (phonograph in American English).
		Berliner worked for Bell Telephone in Boston from 1877 to 1883, when he returned to Washington and established himself as a private researcher.
		Berliner also invented a new type of loom for mass-production of cloth, acoustic tile, and experimented with an early version of the helicopter said by some accounts to have successfully lifted two men off the ground as early as 1909, although other accounts put the date a decade later.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Emil_Berliner (317 words)

	Emile Berliner
		Emile Berliner became a United States citizen in 1881.
		Berliner also invented a type loom for mass-production of cloth, acoustic tile, and experimented with an early version of the helicopter said by some accounts to have successfully lifted two men off the ground as early as 1909, although other accounts put the date a decade later.
		Emile Berliner died of a heart attack at the age of 78.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/em/Emil_Berliner.html (296 words)

	Berliner Gramophone Company
		It was established in Montreal by Emile Berliner (b Hanover, Germany, 20 May 1851, d Washington, DC, 3 Aug 1929), the inventor of the gramophone and co-founder (in Germany, 1898, with his brother Joseph) of Deutsche Grammophon.
		Berliner took out a Canadian patent on his invention 24 Feb 1897 and in the Bell Telephone factory on Aqueduc St established manufacturing facilities.
		The Berliner Gramophone Co of Canada was chartered 8 Apr 1904 and was reorganized as the Berliner Gramophone Co in 1909.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000287 (489 words)

	Berliner Gramophone Grammophon Phonograph Registry Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		What Emile Berliner did was to invent a system of recording on flat discs from which a matrix could be made, and from which many copies of the original recording could be cheaply pressed.
		Emile Berliner was a minority stock holder and the copyright for the patent belonged to the company.
		Emile Berliner's invention was now in the hands of three companies - The Berliner Gramophone Company (Philadelphia) who manufactured gramophones and records, The Seaman National Gramophone (New York) who oversaw advertising and marketing, and the United States Gramophone Company (Washington) who held the patents.
	www.berliner.netfirms.com (978 words)

	Emile Berliner - Microphone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Emile Berliner invented something that contributed to Bell's sucessful invention of the voice telegraph or telephone.
		Berliners other notable invention was the gramaphone using a flat disk instead of the cylinder that Edison used.
		Berliner founded Deutsche Grammophon and Gramaphone Co. His trademark image became a painting of his dog listening to "his master's voice" which is now the logo of the music retail company HMV.
	library.thinkquest.org /16541/eng/learn/library/content/berliner.htm (161 words)

	The Victor Talking Machine Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Emile Berliner was born in Hanover, Germany on May 20, 1851, the fourth child in a family of eleven.
		It is interesting to note that, while the Berliner patent is generally supposed to have rested on the disc type of record as opposed to the Edison and Bell cylinders, the fact is that the form of the record was a matter of judgment and choice.
		Berliner or his patent advisers had heard of him or his paper, but the description in the book was bad news.
	www.davidsarnoff.org /vtm-chapter3.htm (2357 words)

	Emile Berliner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Berliner also invented a new type of loom for mass-production of cloth, acoustic tile, and experimented with an early version of the helicopter said by some accounts to have successfully lifted two men off the ground as early as 1909, although other accounts put the date a decade later.
		Berliner was also active in advocating improvements in public health and sanitation.
		Emile Berliner died of a heart attack at the age of 78.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emile_Berliner (631 words)

	Canadian Communications Foundation - Fondation Des Communications Canadiennes
		Emile Berliner began his research in a small apartment in Washington which he transformed into an electrical laboratory.
		Berliner’s gramophone was presented for the first time, in 1888, at the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia.
		Between 1904 and 1906, the Berliner Gramophone Comapany produced several types of gramophones at the Montreal factory: the Model A, the Model B called the Ideal, model E called the Bijou and the model C called the Grand, and some years later the "Victrola".
	www.broadcasting-history.ca /program/radio/berlin_e.html (1209 words)

	Search: Emile Berliner
		The story of Emile Berliner, the inventor of the carbon microphone and the disk phonograph, early aviation pioneer, and children's health advocate,...
		Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry is a selection of more than 400 items from the Emile Berliner Papers and 108 Berliner sound recordings from the Library of Congress's...
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	Berliner No.5
		Emile then constructed a larger version with a 55-hp motor, which he dubbed the Aeromobile.
		In 1910, Berliner began to consider the use of a vertically mounted tail rotor to counteract torque on his single main rotor design.
		While Emile and Henry struggled with their designs, the Spaniard, Raul Pateras Pescara demonstrated a helicopter with effective cyclic and collective pitch controls.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/berliner.htm (1199 words)

	Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry: Emile Berliner
		Emile Berliner is not known to have had any testy relations with his inventor colleagues; he appears to have been a man of remarkably even temperament.
		Emile Berliner for many years took an active role in community and social causes, particularly in the public health field.
		Between 1913 and 1918, Berliner wrote four articles on the subject: "The Social Status of the Jews," "Zionism and the American Spirit," "Americanism and Zionism," and "Thoughts on Zionism." In 1919 Berliner was named chairman of the Committee on Arrangements for a reception for the celebrated rabbi Stephen S. Wise.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/berlhtml/berlemil.html (1793 words)

	HHF Factpaper: Emil Berliner; An Unheralded Genius - The Later Years
		Berliner employed the radio and distributed free educational literature on "scalding" milk to reduce the scourge of deadly diseases that killed one third of all children.
		Berliner determined that the new instrument did not vibrate freely because the fibers of the wood under the bridge took much time to adjust to the uneven pressures transmitted by the strings through the bridge to the instruments body.
		Berliner, convinced that many infant's diseases were caused by the ingestion of raw milk, founded the "Society for the Prevention of Sickness" in 1891 and launched a widespread campaign for "scalding" milk before its ingestion.
	www.hebrewhistory.info /factpapers/fp027-2_berliner.htm (4396 words)

	Personality of the Week - Berliner
		Berliner then improved Edison's phonographs by using shallow grooves on a flat disc to replace cylinders and with his inventions brought the modern phonograph into being.
		The Berliner Gramophone Co. introduced the concept of royalties for performers and instituted the recording contract.
		Berliner also made advances in aviation, designing and himself testing - when in his sixties - a variety of helicopters.
	www.bh.org.il /names/POW/Berliner.asp (197 words)

	HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things
		Emile Berliner is by no mean a household name, but in most American households he ought to be.
		In 1887, Emile Berliner patented the first of a series of inventions that would result in the commercially successful disk record and the machine to play it on--the gramophone.
		Berliner had a longstanding friendship with the Smithsonian's first curator of electricity, George Maynard, and Berliner donated to the Institution in 1900 and 1911 some of his earliest apparatus and recordings, including matrices.
	historywired.si.edu /detail.cfm?ID=187 (1119 words)

	Early Sound Recording and the Invention of the Gramophone - History - The Virtual Gramophone
		Berliner was born in Hanover, Germany in 1851, where he was apprenticed to a printer after graduating from school in 1865.
		It was during this period that Berliner began to experiment with the technology associated with the newly invented telephone.
		In Berliner's process, the sound tracing was first etched side-to-side in a spiral on a zinc disc, then this master was electroplated to create a negative which could then be used to stamp copies in vulcanized rubber (and later shellac) -- a process better suited to mass reproduction of musical entertainment.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /gramophone/m2-3004-e.html (819 words)

	Emile Berliner Summary
		Berliner's inventions were now controlled and split among three companies: The United States Gramophone Company in Washington, the Berliner Gramophone Company in Philadelphia, and the Seaman National Gramophone Company in New York.
		Berliner was fascinated with the development of the helicopter and built three of his own models.
		Berliner's discs had two advantages over Edison's cumbersome "cylinders": first, they were more easily stored, and second, although the duplication process developed by Johnson was similar to the procedure Edison used on his cylinders, reproducing the flat discs was far easier and more reliable.
	www.bookrags.com /Emile_Berliner (2756 words)

	BKFK Inventor Information - Famous Inventor - Emile Berliner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Emile Berliner invented the microphone that became part of the first Bell telephones, and his gramophone was the first record player to use disks.
		Berliner's inspiration came when a telegraph operator told him that more current passed as one pressed harder on the key.
		Berliner's gramophone and method for duplicating records were eventually acquired by the Victor Talking Machine Company (eventually RCA).
	www.bkfk.com /inventors/berliner-mile.asp (136 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Emile Berliner emigrated from Hanover, Germany to Washington, DC at the age of 19.
		At the age of 25, Berliner invented a carbon microphone transmitter for use in the telephone recently invented and demonstrated to the public by Alexander Graham Bell.
		Berliner's legacy also lives on in his trademark (later adopted by RCA): a picture of a dog listening to "his master's voice" issuing from a gramophone.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/berliner.html (282 words)

	Jewish Heroes in America
		Emile Berliner's introduction of the flat disk to replace the cylinder in Thomas Edison's phonograph was the basis for the modem gramophone in 1887.
		Berliner was born in Wolfenbuttel, Germany, in 1851.
		Berliner became interested in aviation and engaged in many experiments, which led to his introduction of the use of a revolving light engine.
	www.fau.edu /library/brody39.htm (442 words)

	Music History For Violin Students August 3 Emile Berliner
		Emile Berliner, the inventor of the gramophone, died August 3, 1929 at age 78.
		Berliner set up an electrical lab in his apartment and started experiments to try to build a better transmitter for the telephone to improve its sound quality.
		Berliner was also a developer of the accoustic tile.
	www.violinstudent.com /history/august/august3 (413 words)

	Emile Berliner: Contents of the Case File
		Letter to Berliner acknowledging his letter requesting that invitations be sent to his colleagues and friends.
		Letter from Berliner advising the inclusion of an explanatory note in his paper.
		Letter from Berliner requesting that an invitation be sent to an additional guest.
	sln.fi.edu /case_files/berliner/file.html (315 words)

	Emile Berliner - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Berliner also invented the microphone that became part of the first Bell telephones, known as the carbon microphone transmitter.
		Berliner came to Washington from his native Germany at the age 19; the year was 1870.
		It was Berliner who came up with a cute trademark taken from a painting of a dog listening to a phonograph, an image that was appropriated lock, stock and canine by RCA.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,1740770,00.html (784 words)

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