Gramophone for the first 5 inch Berliner records

The German-American Emil Berliner invented the gramophone and the record. A major improvement to his speech device that was filed for patent in 1887 was the zinc record. Unlike the Edison cylinder, the sound track here is created using the lateral recording process on the recording medium. The early gramophone had a horn made of papier-mâché, which is firmly connected to the tonearm and the sound box. The hand crank is used to set the record in motion, which produces the sound.