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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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EMI
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(Electric and Musical Industries) Company formed in 1931 by the merger of two rivals in the gramophone industry – the London-based Gramophone Company and the Columbia Graphophone Company, whose roots went back to the early talking machines patented in the USA by Thomas Edison. The merger brought together many of the best-known labels, including Columbia, Parlophone and the Gramophone Company's *HMV. In the same year, 1931, Elgar opened EMI's famous studios in Abbey Road, at that time the largest building in the world devoted entirely to recording. From the start the new company took a leading role in the development of *television; its 405-line system was adopted by the BBC in place of the earlier but less sophisticated technology of John Logie *Baird.
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