[78-L] fwd: Phonographic Record Industry - Inquiry

[Kristjan Saag]

Steven C. Barr wrote:

> Emile Berliner effectively
> invented the lateral-cut disc record...but around 1899 got into a legal
> battle with his erstwhile Sales Manager; as a result, he moved his 
> business
> to Montreal (having benn born in Alsace-Lorraine, he probably also
> preferred the French-language community as well...?).
--
Emile Berliner was born in Hannover, Niedersachsen 1851 to a German-speaking 
Jewish family, went to German schools and had a German accent his whole 
life.
The "e" in Emile was added as an Anglicism when he already had settled in 
the United States.
Besides - if he would have been born in Alsace-Lorraine 
(Elsass-Lothringen) - as German-speaking he would probably have avoided all 
that was French, reminding him of the eternal French-German conflict over 
the region.
Kristjan