There is some overlap between stock/non-stock and for profit/not-for-profit in that not-for-profit corporations are always non-stock as well. A for profit corporation is almost always a stock corporation, but some for profit corporations may choose to be non-stock.n British English and in the Commonwealth countries, the term company is more widely used to describe the same sort of entity while the word corporation encompasses all incorporated entities.
Richard G. Drew invented double-sided tape while working for the 3M company.
Thomas Edison invented his tin-foil phonograph, Edison's phonograph was followed by Alexander Graham Bell's graphophone. In 1887 Emile Berliner invented the gramophone and records.he Dictaphone was still in use in the early 1950's.    The first flat, circular record was invented in 1887 by Emile Berliner (1851-1929), a German-born American inventor, who also devised the gramophone to play his disks.