Emile Berliner and the Microphone
 Emile Berliner – Inventor (May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929)  This morning as I read through events that happened on this day (March 4) the one that peaked my interest was, that in 1877 Emile Berliner invented the microphone. That seemed like something I had to find out more about and what I did was pretty interesting! Emile Berliner was born in the Kingdom of Hanover, Germany on May 20, 1851. He migrated to the United States in 1870 to avoid being drafted for the Franco-Prussian War. His first home was Washington D,C. where he lived with a friend of his father’s who had come with Emile. Emile lived and worked in the friends shop. Through the magic of Ancestry.com  I discovered that Emile left Hamburg on April 27,1870.and arrived in New York on May 11, 1870. (not that it matters but it’s interesting).He eventually moved to New York he worked various jobs and studied physics at night at the Cooper Union Institute. While it was the invention of the microphone that led me to Emile Berliner, that is not the invention he is best known for! He is best  known for developing the disc record gramophone (phonograph in American English) He founded the Berliner Gramophone Company in 1895, The Gramophone Company in London, England, in 1897, Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover, Germany, in 1898 and Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada in Montreal in 1899 (chartered in 1904). .Like many inventors Berliner worked on a variety of projects among his other inventions…
