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 ...

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 ...

A LECTURE on “Developments in Magnetic Recording” was given by Mr. P. T. Hobson to the British Sound Recording Association on March 27, with demonstrations of the wire-recording machine now in ...

Rumors of new, improved methods of phonograph recording (on wire, film, etc.) have filled the wartime air. Last week one of the biggest U.S. recording companies, RCA Victor, said that, so far as its ...

WASHINGTON - The banking industry is balking at an effort to bring the American money wire system into compliance with international standards established after Sept. 11, 2001, to stop terrorist ...

Recording stops and starts. Sound is scratchy and distorted, recording level is low, and portions are difficult or impossible to understand. Recording begins with a two-minute talk about wire ...

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