His Master's Voice
[image: Nipper] *His** Master's **Voice**" became one of the best-known * *trademarks in the world -little dog Nipper* - Nipper and His Master's Voice[image: Photograph of Francis Barraud with one of his paintings for His Master's Voice] Source Francis Barraud with one of his paintings for His Master's Voice. Another painting is drying in the background * Sometime during the 1890s, English artist Francis Barraud painted a picture of his brother's dog, Nipper, inquisitively listening to a phonograph. Barraud hoped to sell the painting to a phonograph company, but could not find an interested buyer. After receiving a suggestion to change the trumpet of the machine from black to brass, Barraud went to the Gramophone Company's office to borrow a machine to use as a model. In explaining his request, Barraud showed a photograph of his painting. The manager, Barry Owen, liked the painting and asked if it was for sale. When Barraud replied that it was for sale, Owen agreed to buy the painting if the phonograph could be replaced with a gramophone.* * When Emile Berliner visited England in May 1900 and saw the picture, he promptly registered it as a trademark -- in the United States on May 26th and in Canada on July 16th. The Victor Talking Machine Company began to use the painting as a trademark in 1902, and the Gramophone Company in 1909.* * The original painting hangs in the offices of EMI, the successor of the Gramophone Company. It is one of the most widely recognized and valuable trademarks in the world.* *"If Nipper only knew that, he would wag his little stumpy tail so proudly. He did not know he was going to be handed down to posterity. No more did I. Nipper bids fair to go on listening into the ages."* > *The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of > his tongue. - Anonymous > > There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. - Ben > Williams > > A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than heloves himself. > - Josh Billings > > The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. - Andy Rooney > > Dogs love their friends & bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are > incapable of pure love & always have to mix love & hate. - Anonymous > > Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. - > Franklin P. Jones > > If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise- Unknown > > My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. > That's almost $21.00 in dog money.- Joe Weinstein > > Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and > get used to the idea. - Robert A. Heinlein > > If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite > you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - Mark Twain > > Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. - Roger Caras > > If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your > pocket and then give him only two of them. - Phil Pastoret* > -*Cnu.pne*
