Emile Berliner (May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929), originally
Emil Berliner, was a
German-American inventor. He is best known for inventing the
phonograph record (called
gramophone record in British English and originally also in American English) and the
phonograph (
gramophone in British English and originally also 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).