Gramophone

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Washington, DC. On 4 May 1887 Emile Berliner applied for a patent on a "Gramophone" with a cylindrical recording surface, and on 26 September 1887 for a patent on a flat-disk record and player. The first model, introduced in 1888, used a flat disk.