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| Series 1. Addresses, circa 1888-1929 | |||||||||||||
| .5 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| RPA 00832 (box 1) | |||||||||||||
| Series 1 contains copies of speeches and addresses by Emile Berliner on a variety of subjects. Examples include a 1888 speech delivered to the Franklin Institute on the gramophone, a 1925 paper prepared for the D.C. chapter of the American Institute of Architects on acoustic tiles, and three addresses on transmitters and the development of the talking machine. It also includes an address by Berliner from 1913 for the National Farm School on the social status of the Jews. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/1 | Addresses, 1888-1929 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/1 | The gramophone: etching the human voice Published: [ca. 1888 May 16] |
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| Author: Emile Berliner | |||||||||||||
| 22 p. ; 23 cm. | |||||||||||||
| digital ID: 01010101 | |||||||||||||
| Digital content available. | |||||||||||||
| Published speech by Berliner delivered to the Franklin Institute on May 16, 1888, about the gramophone. | |||||||||||||
| Handwritten note on p. 1: "Copy from which I read the paper may 16/88." And in different handwriting: "The text was changed here and there for publication in Journal of the F.I." More handwritten notes appear throughout text. | |||||||||||||
| P. 22 contains clipping from the Evening Herald, May 17, 1888, describing Berliner's address to the Franklin Institue about the gramophone. Cover for address is missing. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/1 | The gramophone: etching the human voice Published: Washington, D.C. : Berliner Gramophone Company, 1909 |
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| Author: Emile Berliner | |||||||||||||
| 24 p. ; 23 1/2 cm. | |||||||||||||
| digital ID: 01010102 | |||||||||||||
| Digital content available. | |||||||||||||
| Reprint of published speech by Berliner delivered to the Franklin Institute on May 16, 1888, about the gramophone. Also contains Edward H. Johnson's account of the invention of the phonograph. | |||||||||||||
| Copy 1. | |||||||||||||
| Title on cover: "Paper read before the Franklin Institute, May 16, 1888, on the gramophone by its inventor, Emile Berliner." | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/2 | Addresses, 1888-1929 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/2 | Three addresses | ||||||||||||
| Author: Emile Berliner | |||||||||||||
| 46 p. ; 24 cm. | |||||||||||||
| digital ID: 01010202 | |||||||||||||
| Digital content available. | |||||||||||||
| Contains "The loose contact transmitter" (1910), "A reminiscence" (1912), and "The development of the talking machine" (1913). | |||||||||||||
| Copy 2. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/3 | Addresses, 1888-1929 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/4 | Addresses, 1913 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/4 | The social status of the Jews Published: [1913?] |
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| Author: Emile Berliner | |||||||||||||
| 8 p. ; 23 cm. | |||||||||||||
| digital ID: 01010401 | |||||||||||||
| Digital content available. | |||||||||||||
| Address before the National Farm School, October 19, 1913. | |||||||||||||
| Note on p. 1: "Owing to circumstances this address was not delivered, but it appeared in 'The American Israelite' of November 13th, 1913." | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/5 | Addresses, circa 1925 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/5 | Hall acoustics Published: Washington, D.C. : Acoustic Tile Company, [ca. 1925] |
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| Author: Emile Berliner | |||||||||||||
| 7 p. ; 22 cm. | |||||||||||||
| digital ID: 01010501 | |||||||||||||
| Digital content available. | |||||||||||||
| Paper read before the Washington, D.C. chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Oct. 8, 1925, about how acoustic tiles can improve the sound in halls and auditoriums. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/6 | Addresses, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/6 | Franklin Institute, May 15, 1929 Published: [1929] |
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| Author: Emile Berliner and the Franklin Institute | |||||||||||||
| 20 p. ; 24 cm. | |||||||||||||
| digital ID: 01010601 | |||||||||||||
| Digital content available. | |||||||||||||
| Contains 2 articles published in the Journal of the Franklin Institute, July 1929: "Vocal physics--historic notes," written by Emile Berliner and delivered before the Franklin Institute, and an article on Medal Day, in which Berliner received a medal. | |||||||||||||
| Series 2. Journal Articles and Newspaper Clippings, 1883, 1900, 1922, 1927-1929, 1955 | |||||||||||||
| 1 linear foot | |||||||||||||
| RPA 00833 (box 2); RPD 00035 (box OS 1) | |||||||||||||
| Selected items available online. | |||||||||||||
| Series 2 consists of journal articles and newspaper clippings which chronicle Berliners life, interests and inventions, the bulk of which are obituaries from 1929. Some early articles focus on Berliner's inventions of the gramophone, microphone, and acoustic improvements. Later articles highlight his efforts on health care and curing infant mortality. Journals include Young Israel, the American Hebrew, and Journal of Outdoor Life. Newspapers include the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Washington Herald, the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger, the Evening Post, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, among others. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/1 | Articles on the gramophone, 1922-1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER OS1/1 | Articles on the gramophone, 1900, 1952 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/2 | Articles on the telephone, microphone, 1922-1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER OS1/2 | Articles on the telephone, microphone, 1883 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/3 | Articles and clippings on health, 1922-1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER OS1/3 | Newspaper clippings on health, 1928-1929 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/4 | Articles on acoustic tile, 1922-1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER OS1/4 | Newspaper clippings on acoustic tile, 1928 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/5 | Biographical and miscellaneous articles, 1922-1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/6 | Newspaper clippings on Berliner's death, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/7 | Newspaper clippings on Berliner's death, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/8 | Newspaper clippings on Berliner's death, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER OS1/5 | Newspaper clippings on Berliner's death, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/9 | Newspaper clippings on Berliner's death and other topics, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/10 | Miscellaneous articles, 1922-1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER OS1/6 | Miscellaneous newspaper clippings, undated | ||||||||||||
| Series 3. Artifacts, undated | |||||||||||||
| .5 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| RPA 00834 (box 4) | |||||||||||||
| Selected items available online. | |||||||||||||
| This series holds actual parts from machines. They include talking machine needles and washers. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 4/1 | Sprechmaschinen-nandeln [Talking machine needles], undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 4/2 | Washer samples, undated | ||||||||||||
| Series 4. Books, 1879-1928 | |||||||||||||
| 3.5 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| RPA 00835-00841 (boxes 5-11); RPB 00108-00109 (boxes 29-30) | |||||||||||||
| Selected items available online. | |||||||||||||
| This series consists of 23 books and includes court proceedings, arguments, briefs, and affidavits for Berliner’s court cases (U.S. v. American Bell Telephone Co. and Emile Berliner, bound issues of the serial Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review, v. VIII, and many copies of Muddy Jim and Other Rhymes, a book written by Berliner on children’s health issues. This series also includes the supplement to Muddy Jim written by Dr. George M. Kober, professor of hygiene at Georgetown University, and a copy of A bas les maladies! published by the Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis of Washington, D.C. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 5/1-3 | A Bas les Maladies! 1919 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 5/5 | Annual Report of the Smithsonian Board of Regents, 1908 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 5/6 | United States of America v. American Bell Telephone Co. and Emile Berliner, brief for defendants, 1894 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 6/1 | History of the Telephone Transmitter, 1894 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 6/2 | Gedenkblätter 150 Stiftungstag des Wohltätigkeitsverins der Synagogengemeinde Hannover (Pages of testimony in memory of the Foundation Day charities for the synagogue community in Hanover, Germany), 1912 | ||||||||||||
| Annotation on front cover notes the page number of the account of Berliner’s 42 years of service in Jewish charity work. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 6/3-4 | United States of America v. American Bell Telephone Co. and Emile Berliner, brief for defendants, 1894 | ||||||||||||
| Two copies. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 7/1 | Jubiläumsschrift der Telephon-Fabrik Actiengesellschaft (25th Jubilee Book of the J. Berliner Telephone Factory), 1881-1906 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 7/2 | Muddy Jim and Other Rhymes, 1919 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 7/3 | Muddy Jim: Supplement: 12 Chapters in Hygiene, circa 1919 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 7/4 | Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review: v. 7, January–December, 1879 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 7/5 | Twelve Years of the Telephone Pioneers of America, 1923 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 7/6 | Various Aspects of Birth Control, 1928 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 7/7 | Washington Health Rules, 1915 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 8/1 | United States of America v. American Bell Telephone Co. and Emile Berliner, argument of J. J. Storrow, Esq. for defendants, 1894 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 8/2 | United States of America v. American Bell Telephone Co. and Emile Berliner,argument of J. J. Storrow, Esq. for defendants, 1894 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 8/3 | United States of America v. American Bell Telephone Co. and Emile Berliner,summary brief for defendants, 1894 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 8/4 | United States of America v. American Bell Telephone Co. and Emile Berliner,argument of Frederick P. Fish, for defendants, 1893 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 8/5 | United States of America v. American Bell Telephone Co. and Emile Berliner,v. I, pleadings and evidence, 1894 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 9/1 | United States of America v. American Bell Telephone Co. and Emile Berliner,v. II, exhibits, 1894 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 9/2 | American Bell Telephone Co. et al, v. the United States of America,memorandum of points made and references noted in oral argument by counsel for complainant, 1894 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 9/3 | American Bell Telephone Co., Emile Berliner v. the United States of America,brief for appellants; Appellants reply to appellee’s memorandum; Summary of proceedings, 1895 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 10/1 | American Bell Telephone Co., v. the Overland Telephone Company of New Jersey, 1884 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 10/2 | American Bell Telephone Co., v. the People’s Telephone Company et al, 1884 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 10/3 | Dept. of Interior, United States v. American Bell Telephone, 1887; United States v. American Bell Telephone, 1885, 1887-1888 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 10/4 | United States v. American Bell Telephone Co.,oral argument for Mr. Storrow for the Bell Company on its demurrer, June, 1887, and oral argument of Mr. Dickerson for the Bell Company, 1888 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 10/5 | The Telephone Appeals, oral argument of Mr. Dickerson, January 24 to February 8, 1887 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 10/6 | The Telephone Appeals, oral argument of Mr. Storrow on the Drawbaugh defence, January 24 to February 8, 1887 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 10/7 | History of the telephone,James Storrow before the Supreme Court, 1886 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 10/8 | American Bell Telephone Co. v. Sylvanus D. Cushman et al, 1893 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 11/1 | American Bell Telephone Co. v. National Telephone Manufacturing Co., v. Century Telephone Co. et al,, argument of Frederic H. Betts, 1899 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 11/2 | American Bell Telephone Co. v. National Telephone Manufacturing Co. v. Century Telephone Co. et al,, brief for complainant, 1899 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 11/3 | American Bell Telephone Co. v. National Telephone Co. Manufacturing Co. et al, argument at the hearing in support of the defense, by R.S. Taylor, 1899 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 11/4 | American Bell Telephone Co. v. National Telephone Co. Manufacturing Co. et al,brief for defendants, 1895 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 11/5 | American Bell Telephone Co. v. National Telephone Co. Manufacturing Co. et al, brief for complainant upon appeal, 1902 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 11/6 | Gramophone Litigation, [1905?] | ||||||||||||
| BOX 29 | The Electrician, Weekly Journal, v. 4, November 22, 1879, to May 15, 1880 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 30 | Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review, v. 8, January–December, 1880 | ||||||||||||
| Series 5. Catalogs, 1895-1896 | |||||||||||||
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