Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Emile Berliner across 4 places, from 1851 to 1929.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Emile Berliner (born Emil Berliner; May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929) was a German-American inventor and businessman who invented the lateral-cut flat disc record, also known as a "gramophone record," used with a gramophone.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Emile Berliner was documented, and when
1851year
Hanoverattested“Berliner was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1851 into a Jewish merchant family.”source: Wikipedia: Emile Berliner
1877year
Bostonattested“Berliner moved to Boston in 1877, where he became a United States citizen four years later.”source: Wikipedia: Emile Berliner
1909year
Washington, D.C.attested“In 1909, Berliner founded the Gyro Motor Company in Washington, D.C.”source: Wikipedia: Emile Berliner
3 August 1929exact date
Washington, D.C.attested“On August 3, 1929, Berliner died of a heart attack at his home at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., at the age of 78.”source: Wikipedia: Emile Berliner
3 August 1929exact date
Marriott Wardman Parkattested“On August 3, 1929, Berliner died of a heart attack at his home at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., at the age of 78.”source: Wikipedia: Emile Berliner
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1859year
Dubuquementioned“Berliner obtained automobile engines from the Adams Company in Dubuque, Iowa, whose Adams-Farwell automobile used air-cooled three- or five-cylinder rotary engines developed in-house by Fay Oliver Farwell (1859–1935).”source: Wikipedia: Emile Berliner
1870year
Washington, D.C.mentioned“To avoid being drafted in the Franco-Prussian War, Berliner migrated to the United States of America in 1870 with a friend of his father's, in whose shop he worked in Washington, D.C.”source: Wikipedia: Emile Berliner
1870year
United Statesmentioned“To avoid being drafted in the Franco-Prussian War, Berliner migrated to the United States of America in 1870 with a friend of his father's, in whose shop he worked in Washington, D.C.”source: Wikipedia: Emile Berliner
1876year
Baltimorementioned“The manager of the company was Spencer Heath (1876–1963), a mechanical engineer who was connected with the American Propeller Manufacturing Company, a manufacturer of aeronautical related mechanisms and products in Baltimore.”source: Wikipedia: Emile Berliner
1890year
Germanymentioned“In 1890, a Berliner licensee in Germany was manufacturing a toy Gramophone and five-inch hard rubber discs (stamped-out replicas of etched zinc master discs), but because key U.S.”source: Wikipedia: Emile Berliner
1 July 1909exact date
New Yorkmentioned“According to a July 1, 1909, report in The New York Times, a helicopter built by Berliner and J.”source: Wikipedia: Emile Berliner
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