With Emile Berliner finding a way to make use of both sides of the flat disc pro-portable rendered the vertically cylindral type phonograph hill and dale action invalid. Emil'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. The Berliner's Gramophone Company was the first recording industry in Canada and the first to manufacture records and the talking machines. The first 7" discs was issued on the 2nd January 1900, was a 10" record released in 1902. 1903 saw the advent of the 12" disc. Later on came the presentation of the double-sided disc for all the world to see in 1908. The first-ever flat discs, invented by Emile Berliner, were 5" in diameter made from a toy machine and formed of celluloid rubber. Shellac, was the compound used to make most 78rpm discs a resin derived from the Lac beetle. The first commercially available 78rpm discs were 7inch in diameter, that played for a maximum of two minutes. Emil Berliner began to expand by setting up a merger between the USA Gramophone Company and the Victor Company to produced his gram-o-phone in1901. This same Victor Company that later became the famously known RCA Victor. Thomas Edison's version of the hill and dale technique system began to flatter in the market place so much that he had to do a re-think and decide to produce a flat disc system of his own to complete with Emile Berliner. |
