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Emile Berliner

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A German-American inventor who developed the disc record gramophone in the late 1880s. While Thomas Edison's phonograph used wax cylinders, Berliner's system etched sound onto flat discs, initially made of glass or zinc and later shellac. This allowed for mass replication from a single master disc, creating the modern music recording industry.

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