Gramophone 100 years old
- 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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