After telling a few stories about how he built a tape recorder as a 16-year-old boy in post-war Germany, [Hans] was finally cajoled into retelling this story in a proper form, giving the Internet ...

A machine that records audio or video onto magnetic tape. A tape "recorder" or tape "deck" generally refers to earlier analog devices, such as a VHS tape recorder. Until the 1990s, analog audio ...

“Like a travelling razor blade”, a Blattnerphone steel-strip tape recorder at the BBC in 1937. Douglas Hallam, Jr., Public domain. The first magnetic recordings were made directly on metal ...

They sequestered him in a room with a tape recorder and an attendant, and Kesey offered play-by-play on hallucinations that included talking frogs, mummies and a Wollensak tape recorder that ...

Ampex sold the first video tape recorder for $50,000 in 1956. By 1971, Sony began marketing the first at-home VCRs. After Ginsberg’s invention broke, nothing was ever the same for the ...

What if it’s a really fancy dictaphone with a spinning “tape” reel ... believe there’s a market by announcing the TP-7 field recorder — a quirky, compact recording device designed ...

Lou Ottens was fiddling with a reel-to-reel tape recorder one night in the early 1960s, trying to thread a wafer-thin piece of magnetic tape through mechanical guides so that he could listen to ...