Background
Emile Berliner was born on May 20, 1851 in Hanover, Germany. He was a son of Samuel Berliner and Sally Fridman.
Emile Berliner was born on May 20, 1851 in Hanover, Germany. He was a son of Samuel Berliner and Sally Fridman.
Emile Berliner studied as public school in Hanover, Germany. He attended Samson School. Berliner studied physics at night at the Cooper Union Institute.
In 1870 Emile Berliner moved to the United States, he was variously employed in New York and Washington, District of Columbia, as a clerk, traveling salesman, and assistant in a chemical laboratory. The patent on a carbon microphone transmitter for the telephone was immediately purchased by the Bell Telephone Company, which also hired Berliner as chief telephone inspector. The patent on a gramophone playing a flat disc was purchased by the Victor Talking Machine Company. Both the microphone and the gramophone disc are the basis of the modern telephone transmitter and phonograph record. In 1907 he organized the first milk conference in Washington, District of Columbia, which was instrumental in obtaining legislation for pasteurization and the improvement of milk standards.
Emile Berliner was raised Jewish, but later became an agnostic.
In 1881 Emile Berliner married Cora Adler. They had seven children.
