Throughout history, there have been many master inventors but none more so than Emil Berliner who received very little acclamation for his contributions. Well, it is my intention to help in righting that wronged in my contribution feature of "History of Vinyl Records." Here's a man who was born in Germany and immigrate to America in 1870, where he seriously began his discoveries, investigations and innovations ranging from acoustics to telephones, record players, microphone, transformer, helicopters and airplanes, and even in the field of medicine for public health. Maybe his study of music was the stepping-stone towards his fascination of acoustics leading him on the path to his invention of the flat disc and the Gramophone. Emile Berliner had a lasting thirst for knowledge in which he attended the Cooper Institutional Establishment of Washington. While in attendance of the Cooper Institution on a part time basis studying physics and electricity and made good use of the knowledge he had gained from his studies. However, it is said that only one incomplete biography was ever publish about this truly notable extraordinary human being, a mastermind with an acute intellectual brain in his day whose discoveries and inventions created a permanent and everlasting impact on every household in society even today. Emil Berliner would generally work until quite late into the night until the wee hours of the mornings experimenting with the electrical transmission of sounds. At the age of 17 after studying the methods that existed, Emil Berliner went on to produced a similar kind of material he had been handling. Emile Berliner set out to bring something new that would set the world alight and was his invention of the flat disc. |
