Description
He filed the first patent for the gramophone, a device using lateral recording on a flat disc, also known as a gramophone player.
Related events
- Emile Berliner, the inventor of the gramophone and the laterally cut gramophone record, died in Washington, D.C., at the age of 78 from a heart attack. His hand-operated device from 1895 helped establish the use of flat seven-inch records worldwide.