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Emile Berliner and the Birth of the
Recording Industry, in American Memory.
Emile Berliner and the Birth of
the Recording Industry documents
the activities of the person responsible for the development of the gramophone,
microphone and flat recording disc. Recordings from the Berliner Gramophone Company
document the various kinds of material recorded in the 1890. Also included is
information on Berliner's other interests including public health and poetry.
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Emile
Berliner: Inventor of the Gramophone
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Development of the Industrial United
States, 1876-1915
Emergence of Modern America — 1890-1930
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