Previous Page: The first flat disc recording was made by Emil Berliner's Deutsche Gramophone Company, and by 1948 on its 50th birthday they had an annual production rate of 1.79 million records and tapes. Emil Berliner in his beliefs that a flat surface could be more precisely cut and more perplexed than a cylinder. Emil Berliner found a way to score sound impressions obliquely making use both sides of the record grooves rather than the vertically cylindral type phonograph hill and dale action. Emile Berliner's discovery enabled both sides of the stylus to be employed rather than its point, reducing the wear of the stylus. This accurate form of sound reproduction was to reverberate through ages of time endurance, making it possible for humankind to hold close associations with immortality. The Berliner Gramophone Company spread from Germany to Canada and quickly establishing branches in the USA, India Vienna, Berlin, Budapest, London and Paris. Berliner's Gramophone Company was the first recording company in Canada and the first to manufacture records and the talking machines. The first 7inch discs issued on the 2nd January 1900, the10inch record released in 1902, then in 1903 saw the advent of the 12inch record . |
