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Berliner Improved Gramophone

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2025 6:34 am
by phonogfp
“On This Day in the History of Recorded Sound…”

August 19, 1897: Eldridge Johnson filed for a U.S. patent for a “Gramophone and Actuating Device Therefore.” This device became the Berliner Improved Gramophone, selling over 30,000 units, and part of the world’s best-known trademark: “His Master’s Voice.”

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