Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry: Selected Bibliography


Berliner, Emile. "The Berliner Gramophone." The Electrical World, November 12, 1887.

-----. "The Gramophone: Etching the Human Voice." Journal of the Franklin Institute, 1888.

-----. "The Improved Gramophone." The Electrical World, August 18, 1888.

-----. "The Improved Gramophone." Journal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, December 16, 1890.

-----. "Technical Notes on the Gramophone." Journal of the Franklin Institute, 1895.

-----. "Ideas Worth Millions." Saturday Evening Post, 1901.

-----. "The Mission of the Gramophone." Canadian Music Trade Journal, 1910.

-----. "The Loose-Contact Transmitter." Telephone News, February 1, 1911. Reprinted in Three Addresses. Privately printed, no date.

-----. "A Reminiscence: An Address to the Telephone Pioneers of America, November 14, 1912." In Three Addresses. [Washington, D.C.?: 1913?]

-----. "The Development of the Talking Machine." A paper read before the Franklin Institute May 21, 1913. Printed in Three Addresses. Privately printed, no date.

-----. The Social Status of the Jews. Privately issued pamphlet, 1913.

-----. "The Scientific Side of Music." The Phonograph Journal of Canada, September 1926.

Charosh, Paul, comp. Berliner Gramophone Records: American Issues, 1892-1900. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995.

"Emile Berliner." B'nai B'rith Magazine, 1929.

"His Genius Helped Make America Great." The American Hebrew, August 9, 1929.

Marco, Guy A., ed. Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound in the United States. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993.

Smart, comp. Berliner Records in the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, .

Smart, James R. "Emile Berliner and Nineteenth-Century Disc Recordings." The Quarterly Journal of The Library of Congress (Summer/Fall 1980).

Smart, James R. "Emile Berliner and Nineteenth-Century Disc Recordings" in Wonderful Inventions: Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound at the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1985.

Wile, Frederic William. Emile Berliner: Maker of the Microphone. New York: Arno Press, 1974.

Wile, Raymond: "Etching the Human Voice: the Berliner Invention of the Gramophone." Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Journal 21, no. 1 (1990).

-----. "Launching of the Gramophone." Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Journal 24, no. 2 (1993).

-----. "The Gramophone Becomes a Success in America, 1896-1898." Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Journal 27, no. 2 (1996).


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