If this is your first page of entry please head for the start and read the articles in order! Emil Berliner: Throughout history, there have been many master inventors but none more so than Emil Berliner who received very little acclamation for his contributions, well, it is my intention to help in righting that wronged in my contribution feature of "The History of the Vinyl Records." Here's a man who was born in Germany and immigrated to America in 1870, where he seriously began his investigations and innovations ranging from acoustics to telephones, record players microphone, transformer, helicopters and airplanes, and even in the field of medicine. Maybe Emil Berliner study of music was the stepping-stone towards his fascination of acoustics leading him on the path to his invention of the flat disc and the Gramophone. Emil Berliner had a lasting thirst for knowledge in which he attended the Cooper institutional establishment of Washington on a part-time basis studying physics and electricity. Yet it is said that only one incomplete biography was ever publish about this truly notable extraordinary human being, a masterminded intellect in his day whose discoveries and inventions created permanent and everlasting impact on every household in society even today. |
