NEW YORK — Stefan Kudelski — inventor of the first professional-quality portable tape recorder, which revolutionized Hollywood moviemaking and vastly expanded the reach of documentarians, independent ...

He rose to become U.S. sales manager for the company, known for its portable tape recorders used for making movies. By THR Staff Danny R. Grimes, longtime sales manager for the electronics engineering ...

Aiwa–it`s pronounced like Iowa–was one of the first Japanese companies to export portable tape recorders to North America in the early 1960s, even before the cassette. Aiwa`s technology and quality ...

In December of 1953, a young man named JOHN COHEN bought one of the first portable tape recorders so he could record a remarkable guitarist and gospel singer named REVEREND GARY DAVIS. He hauled the ...

Times have changed since Nobutoshi Kihara sketched out designs for the revolutionary Walkman on a piece of paper. A protA©gA© of Sony co-founders Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita, Kihara is the face ...

In the early 1960s, technology companies like Phillips began experimenting with condensing reel-to-reel tape players and recorders into something that could be carried around and used by a layperson.