LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Gramophone 100 years old

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

25 Sep 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:03:15

Description

Report on the 100th anniversary of Emile Berliner receiving a patent for inventing the gramophone using flat discs, which were a lot cheaper than Edison’s cylinders. Speaks to Peter Copeland, Conservation Manager at the National Sound Archive in London. Includes playing of an early disc. Female reporter not identified

Further information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Berliner

Contributors

Peter Copeland

Keywords

Disc recordings; Sound recordings; Anniversaries; Emile Berliner; Patents; Centenaries

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