<P> Emile Berliner ( May 20 , 1851 -- August 3 , 1929 ) , originally Emil Berliner , was a German - born American inventor . He is best known for inventing the flat disc phonograph record ( called a gramophone record in British English and originally also in American English ) and the Gramophone . He founded the United States Gramophone Company in 1894 , The Gramophone Company in London , England , in 1897 , Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover , Germany , in 1898 , Berliner Gram - o - phone Company of Canada in Montreal in 1899 ( chartered in 1904 ) , and Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901 with Eldridge Johnson . </P>
<P> Emile Berliner ( May 20 , 1851 -- August 3 , 1929 ) , originally Emil Berliner , was a German - born American inventor . He is best known for inventing the flat disc phonograph record ( called a gramophone record in British English and originally also in American English ) and the Gramophone . He founded the United States Gramophone Company in 1894 , The Gramophone Company in London , England , in 1897 , Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover , Germany , in 1898 , Berliner Gram - o - phone Company of Canada in Montreal in 1899 ( chartered in 1904 ) , and Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901 with Eldridge Johnson . </P>
emile berliner 's contribution to the sound recording industry was
emile berliner 's contribution to the sound recording industry was
inventing the flat disc phonograph record ( called a gramophone record in British English and originally also in American English ) and the Gramophone
inventing the flat disc phonograph record ( called a gramophone record in British English and originally also in American English ) and the Gramophone