Berliner disc collection, 1891-1898.

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Berliner disc collection, 1891-1898.

Experimental recordings made by Emile Berliner. Includes nine 6" zinc masters (1891-1893), one 7" zinc master (1898) and one 7" shellac pressing (1898).

11 sound discs.

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Berliner, Emile, 1851-1929

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Emile Berliner (1851-1929) was a prominent inventor living at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Overlooked by today's historians, Berliner's creative genius rivaled that of his better-known contemporaries Thomas Alva Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, and, like the works of these two inventors, Berliner's innovations helped shape the modern American way of life. Although Berliner did not invent recorded sound technology, his innovations led to i...

Online Archive of California

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