If I were to ask you to briefly summarize the history of sound recording, I’m sure you would start with something like Thomas Edison’s cylinder-based phonograph circa 1878 as illustrated below: The ...

Through the years the recording of voice and sound has used different technologies and formats. Early dictation machines recorded on tin foil, wax cylinders, and then vinyl. Later methods used large ...

If you think of old recording technology, you probably think of magnetic tape, either in some kind of cassette or, maybe, on reels. But there’s an even older technology that recorded voice on ...

In 1878 Oberlin Smith introduced to the world the idea of magnetically storing the electrical signals produced by the telephone on a steel wire. More than 130 years later, and after moving from wires ...

An audio recording system that magnetized an ultra-thin wire as the medium. First invented in 1898, several wire recorders were developed over the years but were never very popular. In the 1920s and ...

Electricity refined the way sounds were captured in time — adding a new dimension of fidelity to the acoustic phonograph. The invention of magnetic recording tape represented a quantum leap forward in ...

If you think of old recording technology, you probably think of magnetic tape, either in some kind of cassette or, maybe, on reels. But there’s an even older technology that recorded voice on ...

The dream of every U.S. warcaster is to talk from the scene of battle itself. But live broadcasts from the fighting fronts are not practical (the enemy might intercept them). And most recording ...

An older medium of magnetic recording now superseded by MAGNETIC TAPE. The magnetisable wire recorder was the first means of field recording and was used as early as 1899. The Danish engineer Valdemar ...