Taha Art Gramophone Player Original/Working Gramophone Record Player 8gp - Wood, Brass - 78 RPM Record Support - Manual (Spring-driven) - Disc - Corded Electric - Antique Style - Ideal for Home Decor In 1896 Berliner licensed a group of businessmen to sell and distribute his products. They formed the Berliner Gramophone Company of Philadelphia and hired Frank Seaman to organize the National Gramophone Company in New York to handle the distribution of both the discs and the machines. www. gramophone .in History of Gramophone - Who invented Gramophone ? History of sound recording and playback became forever change in 1850s with the discovery of first Phonautograph by the hands of French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, and his lifelong quest to obtain more knowledge about spoken and written human language. His efforts soon became obsession of two famous American inventors - Thomas Ava Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, whose competition in the fields of electricity, telegraph, and ...