Berliner, not Edison, is inventor of microphone, book declares
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Emile Berliner, three-quarter length portrait, facing right, looking d...
Originally housed in Illustrations folder. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...
Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More
![Emile Berliner, [4/12/27] - Public domain portrait photograph](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MjcvMDEvMDEvZW1pbGUtYmVybGluZXItNDEyMjctMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/31/webp "Emile Berliner, [4/12/27] - Public domain portrait photograph")
Emile Berliner, [4/12/27] - Public domain portrait photograph
Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner worked in the telegraph industry experim... More
Scrap book motion picture - Public domain document scan of drawing
Scrapbook was probably compiled by Emile Berliner. Only excerpts have been digitized. Pages are empty except for 3. Article on cloud telegraphy is loose. Scrapbook is empty except for 3 pages relating to the Un... More
Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Document, 1879 Jan. 8, stating Emile Berliner's claims to telephony in...
May have been inside envelope addressed to Houghton Mifflin & Co., "re Watson's article, 1916." Drawing of invention attached. Document asserts Emile Berliner's claims to have invented improvements to telephony... More
Portrait of Emile Berliner in later years
Copy 1. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Emile Berliner, seated and facing right in group portrait with two chi...
Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Originally mounted cardboard and paper frame.
Journal, Cora A. Berliner - Public domain document scan of drawing
Handwritten; only 38 p. contain writing; 8 loose p. inserted into journal. Contains inserted pencil drawing of Dr. Thaene by Emile Berliner. Cora A. Berliner's journal of her family's trip on board a steamer to... More
Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Berliner family motion picture - Public domain historic place photogra...
Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Mounted on card. Smaller print of item 120010303.
Emile and Joseph Berliner, shaking hands
Mounted on cardboard. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Scrap book motion picture - Public domain document scan of drawing
Scrapbook was probably compiled by Emile Berliner. Only excerpts have been digitized. Pages are empty except for 3. Article on cloud telegraphy is loose. Scrapbook is empty except for 3 pages relating to the Un... More
Scrap book motion picture - Public domain document scan of drawing
Scrapbook was probably compiled by Emile Berliner. Only excerpts have been digitized. Pages are empty except for 3. Article on cloud telegraphy is loose. Scrapbook is empty except for 3 pages relating to the Un... More
Emile Berliner in mirrors - Public domain portrait print
Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 19. Title taken from list description: "Emile Berliner in Mirrors"
Group portrait of Emile Berliner and others
Mounted on cardboard. Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5.
![[Emile Berliner, with the model of the first phonograph machine which he invented]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTAvMDEvMDEvZW1pbGUtYmVybGluZXItd2l0aC10aGUtbW9kZWwtb2YtdGhlLWZpcnN0LXBob25vZ3JhcGgtbWFjaGluZS13aGljaC1oZS1pbnZlbnRlZC0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/32/webp "[Emile Berliner, with the model of the first phonograph machine which he invented]")
[Emile Berliner, with the model of the first phonograph machine which ...
Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner worked in the telegraph industry experim... More
Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Emile Berliner, half-length portrait, standing in doorway, facing left
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Gramophone : No. 534,543, patented 1895 Feb. 19 photocopy
1 page photocopy of a diagram from patent No. 534,543. Witnesses listed as: Percy C ? Bowen and F. J. ? Chapman, Joseph Lyons, Attorney. 1 page photocopy of diagram on page 3 of a four page patent. "4 Sheets--Sheet 3."
Letter from J. W. Hyatt to E. Berliner 1888 August 25
With original envelope. Letter from J. W. Hyatt to E. Berliner regarding the pressing of discs from Berliner's zinc master.
Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...
Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...
Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More
The gramophone: etching the human voice
Copy 1. Title on cover: "Paper read before the Franklin Institute, May 16, 1888, on the gramophone by its inventor, Emile Berliner." Reprint of published speech by Berliner delivered to the Franklin Institute o... More
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain scan - children, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Emile and Cora Berliner - Public domain portrait print
Title taken from Brown Berliner photo box list. Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 17.
Gramophone patents: U. S. Gramophone Co
Handwritten notations throughout. Correction page tipped in at beg. Patent 548, 623. Some blank pages between patents and facing diagrams. Gramophone patents bound informally together. Includes Berliner patents... More
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - military portrait, armed forces officer, leader, commander, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions... More
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - group portrait, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gramophone patents: U. S. Gramophone Co
Handwritten notations throughout. Correction page tipped in at beg. Patent 548, 623. Some blank pages between patents and facing diagrams. Gramophone patents bound informally together. Includes Berliner patents... More
Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Gramophone litigation motion picture
Hardcover. Title taken from spine. Contains compiled material on Victor Talking Machine Co. and U.S. Gramophone Co. vs. American Graphophone Co.; American Graphophone Co. v. National Gramophone Co. and Frank Se... More
![[Emile Berliner, full-length portrait, standing, facing left] / Underwood & Underwood.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMDQvZW1pbGUtYmVybGluZXItZnVsbC1sZW5ndGgtcG9ydHJhaXQtc3RhbmRpbmctZmFjaW5nLWxlZnQtdW5kZXJ3b29kLWFuZC11bmRlcndvb2QtNmVkZGNhLTEwMjQuanBn/40/50/webp "[Emile Berliner, full-length portrait, standing, facing left] / Underwood & Underwood.")
[Emile Berliner, full-length portrait, standing, facing left] / Underw...
Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner worked in the telegraph industry experim... More
Emile Berliner reaches 75 today
Copy 3. Copyright Washington Post; reprinted by permission of the D.C. Public Library, [email protected].
Emile Berliner, 41227 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available ... More
![Inventor of microphone to receive Franklin Gold Medal. On May 15th, Emile Berliner, Washington Scientist, will appear for the third time [...] the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, this time to receive their highest award, the Franklin Gold Medal. Diaphramed walls for perfecting acoustics in auditoriums is his latest achievement to attract their attention. His disc talking machine is, of course, known the world over, he is best known as the inventor of the microphone](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MjkvMDEvMDEvaW52ZW50b3Itb2YtbWljcm9waG9uZS10by1yZWNlaXZlLWZyYW5rbGluLWdvbGQtbWVkYWwtb24tbWF5LTE1dGgtZW1pbGUtYmVybGluZXItMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/51/webp "Inventor of microphone to receive Franklin Gold Medal. On May 15th, Emile Berliner, Washington Scientist, will appear for the third time [...] the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, this time to receive their highest award, the Franklin Gold Medal. Diaphramed walls for perfecting acoustics in auditoriums is his latest achievement to attract their attention. His disc talking machine is, of course, known the world over, he is best known as the inventor of the microphone")
Inventor of microphone to receive Franklin Gold Medal. On May 15th, Em...
A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American... More
Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1882 July 10
Letter from Emile Berliner in Boston to Jacob Berliner. Formerly in mylar sleeve labeled: "Documents #4, Emile Berliner's letters (7) to his brother Jacob in Hannover, January through Oct. 1882." Written on Ame... More
Apparatus for producing sound-records: specification forming part of L...
Copy 1. "Emile Berliner, of Washington, District of Columbia, Assignor to United States Gramophone Company, of Washington, District of Columbia, a corporation of West Virginia." Diagrams and specification of Em... More
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Emile Berliner, full length portrait, facing left
Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Mounted on cardboard labeled Bachrach & Bro, Baltimore, Md, Washington, D.C.
Emile Berliner, bust portrait, facing slightly right
Mounted on cardboard. Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5.
Emile Berliner and veiled woman in automobile
Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1910s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Emile Berliner, 4/12/27 - Public domain portrait photograph
A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American... More
Gramophone: specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,786, ...
Diagram and specifications. Original application filed May 4, 1887, Serial No. 237,060. Divided and this application filed September 26, 1887. Serial No. 250,721. Patent detailing Emile Berliner's "useful impro... More
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gramophone patents: U. S. Gramophone Co
Handwritten notations throughout. Correction page tipped in at beg. Patent 548, 623. Some blank pages between patents and facing diagrams. Gramophone patents bound informally together. Includes Berliner patents... More
Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1882 July 10
Letter from Emile Berliner in Boston to Jacob Berliner. Formerly in mylar sleeve labeled: "Documents #4, Emile Berliner's letters (7) to his brother Jacob in Hannover, January through Oct. 1882." Written on Ame... More
Scrap book motion picture - Public domain document scan of drawing
Scrapbook was probably compiled by Emile Berliner. Only excerpts have been digitized. Pages are empty except for 3. Article on cloud telegraphy is loose. Scrapbook is empty except for 3 pages relating to the Un... More
Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...
Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More
Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...
Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More
Emile Berliner and family - Public domain image related to music prfor...
Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 15. Title taken from Brown Berliner photo box list.
Emile Berliner with daughter Louise and grandson Robert Berliner Frank
Written on front: "Glenora 1921". Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A tribute to Emile Berliner on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birth...
Copy 5. The board of directors of the Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis of the District of Columbia offer Berliner a tribute on his birthday.
Berliner will provides for health education
Reprinted with permission from Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Company, The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com.
Berliner funeral to be held today
Reprinted with permission from Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Company, The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com.
Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1881 January 22
Formerly in mylar sleeve with label: "Documents 3 : Emile Berliner's letters (3) from Boston to his brother Jacob in Hannover. Jan and March 1881. Letter by Arnold Simon 22 Aug 1881 for Emile while in Hannover."
Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1882 October 30
Letter from Emile Berliner in Boston to Jacob Berliner. Formerly in mylar sleeve labeled: "Documents #4, Emile Berliner's letters (7) to his brother Jacob in Hannover, January through Oct. 1882." Written on Ame... More
Gramophone, & c.: specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 637...
Includes 2 pages of diagrams. "Emile Berliner, of Washington, District of Columbia, assignor to the United States Gramophone Company, of same place." Diagrams and specifications for Emile Berliner's "new and us... More
Sound-record and method of making same: specification forming part of ...
Copy 1. "Emile Berliner, of Washington, District of Columbia, Assignor to United States Gramophone Company, of Washington, District of Columbia, a corporation of West Virginia." Diagrams and specifications for ... More
Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...
Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More
Freeing the human voice from its inherent limitations
Vol. 6, No. 2. An essay of Berliner's life and his accomplishments.
Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1882 October 30
Letter from Emile Berliner in Boston to Jacob Berliner. Formerly in mylar sleeve labeled: "Documents #4, Emile Berliner's letters (7) to his brother Jacob in Hannover, January through Oct. 1882." Written on Ame... More
Note on producing a tremulo i.e. tremolo on a violin, 1884 Sept. 26
Note contains Cora Berliner's signature as a witness. Notes on producing a tremolo on a violin and on making a violin sing.
History of the telephone, James I. Storrow before the Supreme Court of...
Title taken from cover which was probably supplied by Berliner. Title page gives title as "Telephone appeals, oral argument of Mr. Storrow on the Bell patents-the Reis defence-infringement, January 24 to Februa... More
Legal documents and notes in German, 1887-1891
Formerly in mylar sleeve labeled: "--with-drawal of suit against Jacob B. Testament 7.21.87. Mr. Hahn Jacob's father in law. 8.26 1890 Proxy for Emile. 1.22.1891 liquidation of company Ehrlich and Berliner. Dis... More
The gramophone: etching the human voice
Copy 1. Title on cover: "Paper read before the Franklin Institute, May 16, 1888, on the gramophone by its inventor, Emile Berliner." Reprint of published speech by Berliner delivered to the Franklin Institute o... More
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1881 January 22
Formerly in mylar sleeve with label: "Documents 3 : Emile Berliner's letters (3) from Boston to his brother Jacob in Hannover. Jan and March 1881. Letter by Arnold Simon 22 Aug 1881 for Emile while in Hannover."
Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1882 March 20
Formerly in mylar sleeve labeled: "Documents #4, Emile Berliner's letters (7) to his brother Jacob in Hannover, January through Oct. 1882." Includes note from Cora Berliner in English on p.7-8. Letter from Emil... More
Letter from J. W. Hyatt to E. Berliner 1888 September 17
With original envelope. Letter from J. W. Hyatt to E. Berliner regarding the pressing of discs from Berliner's zinc master. Briefly touches on potential materials to use.
Letter from W. L. Richards to Emile Berliner, 1926 Nov. 11
Bell Telephone Laboratories letterhead. Letter from W. L. Richards detailing his suggested corrections to a book (or manuscript?) Berliner had written and sent to him for his approval.
Scrapbook, Berliner-Edison controversy
Scrapbook was probably compiled by Emile Berliner. Only excerpts have been digitized. Only 32 leaves are bound, the remainder are loose inside the front cover and consist mostly of multiple copies of the bound ... More
Franklin Institute, May 15, 1929
Contains 2 articles published in the Journal of the Franklin Institute, July 1929: "Vocal physics--historic notes," written by Emile Berliner and delivered before the Franklin Institute, and an article on Medal... More
Eulogy for Emile Berliner, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting collectio...
Eulogy presumably written for Berliner's funeral and burial.
Journal of Cora A. Berliner copy
Copy 1. Cora A. Berliner's journal of her family's trip on board a steamer to Germany and their subsequent extended stay with Emile Berliner's family. Typewritten copy of Cora A. Berliner's journal.
Gramophone: invented by Emile Berliner, "reproducing the human voice"
Copy 1. Pamphlet describing the gramophone, its history, and purpose. Also includes a price list on the back cover for several different products.
Gramophone, & c.: specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 637...
Includes 2 pages of diagrams. "Emile Berliner, of Washington, District of Columbia, assignor to the United States Gramophone Company, of same place." Diagrams and specifications for Emile Berliner's "new and us... More
Gramophone sound-box : specification forming part of Letters Patent No...
"Emile Berliner, of Washington, District of Columbia, assignor to the United States Gramophone Company, of same place"--printed above description of patent. Diagram and specification for Emile Berliner's "new a... More
Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...
Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More
Experiment log, 1886 July 18-Oct. 31
Details experiments for telephonic transmitters.
Gramophone, & c.: specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 637...
Includes 2 pages of diagrams. "Emile Berliner, of Washington, District of Columbia, assignor to the United States Gramophone Company, of same place." Diagrams and specifications for Emile Berliner's "new and us... More
Hall acoustics motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting colle...
Paper read before the Washington, D.C., chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Oct. 8, 1925, about how acoustic tiles can improve the sound in halls and auditoriums.
Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1882 August 22
Letter from Emile Berliner in Boston to Jacob Berliner. Formerly in mylar sleeve labeled: "Documents #4, Emile Berliner's letters (7) to his brother Jacob in Hannover, January through Oct. 1882." Written on Ame... More
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description