Record Player
Emil Berliner
90 degree zigzag
Today’s youth hardly know them; the 40-year olds mourn them. With the invention of the record player in 1887, Emil Berliner brought music into the living room for more than 100 years. He changed the angle between the needle and carrier foil by 90 degrees.
From then on, vertical vibrations from a zigzag groove were the sound of a century.
(Information taken from German Stars – 50 innovations, produced by the Federal Foreign Office, the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, Invest in Germany and the Goethe Institut.)