Phonograph record Gramophone trademark, Berliner started marketing records of 7 inches diameter with somewhat more substantial entertainment value, along with somewhat more substantial gramophones to play them. Berliner's records had poor sound quality compared to wax cylinders, but his manufacturing associate Eldridge R. Johnson eventually improved it. Abandoning Berliner's "Gramophone" trademark for legal reasons, in 1901 Johnson's and Berliner's separate companies reorganized to form the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey, whose products would come to dominate the market for many years. Emile Berliner moved his company to Montreal in 1900. The factory, which became the Canadian branch of RCA
The 5'11" Record The 5'11" Record The 5'11" Record (pronounced "The Five Eleven Record") is an album from Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based band Arrogance, spanning material recorded between 1976 and 1982, before the band's breakup in late 1983. The 5'11" part of the title is in the English units notation for height, meaning five feet, eleven inches, which refers to the average height of the band members. The title relates to the name the band sent these songs under back in the 1980s, looking for a new record deal.[] It was released in 2002 in celebration of the band's thirtieth anniversary and temporary