Date of Birth
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20-May-1851
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Place of Birth
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Hanover
(Lower Saxony, Germany, West Germany)
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Nationality
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United States of America, Germany
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Also know as
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Émile Berliner, Emil Berliner, Emile Berliner
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Profession
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Inventor, Entrepreneur, Writer
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Emile Berliner or Emil Berliner was a German-born American inventor. He is best known for developing the disc record gramophone. He founded the Berliner Gramophone Company in 1895, The Gramophone Company in London, England, in 1897, Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover, Germany, in 1898 and Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada in Montreal in 1899.
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