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Events on Saturday 3 August 1929 2
1851 – 1929Emile Berliner (1851-1929)Died 3 August 1929, aged 78German-born American inventor of the gramophone and the flat disc record. He also developed an improved telephone microphone.
1857 – 1929Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929)Died 3 August 1929, aged 72American economist and sociologist. In The Theory of the Leisure Class he coined the term "conspicuous consumption".