Previous Page: Berliner's transformer that he patent successfully in 1878. Consequently, it contain three elements of the devices we are familiar with as the telephone, the microphone and the transformer were recognized which was as the invention of Emil Berliner. Then 11 years after on the 29th September 1889 Emil Berliner founded the Deutsche Gramophone in Hanover, Germany in which he patent his invented equipment for sound recording fluctuation on a flat surface disc. Emil Berliner had liberated a new field of industrial technology. You can now see the pieces are beginning to fit together in the advent of this feature: "History of Vinyl." Emil Berliner Inventor of the very first flat disc records were produced towards the latter end of the19th century. Recording artistes were to remain unidentified, and up until 1904. The first recorded discs could only play for time of 1.5 minutes. It is noted that the first recording star Fedor Schaljapin at first was scared out of his wits believing that his singing voice would disappear into the record during the recording session. This made him form a cross over his body with his hands before each record was made. If I could turn back the hands of time, I would have liked to have been there to see him, it probably would look like some kind of clowning antics. |