It’s not an accident that the Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys all have names typically used for people (though they’re not all named after specific people). But it is an accident that the Grammys sound like ...

Emile Berliner had built off Edison’s phonograph to invent the gramophone. (You can see how the device worked in the video below.) NARAS landed on gramophones as the design for the statuettes ...