A new 7" single features a few indie bands recording on the lowest of lo-fi equipment: a 1940s-vintage Webster Wire Recorder, a predecessor to magnetic tape that recorded onto steel wire and caused ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1940 Marvin Camras received an ...

[Nick]’s grandfather was quite the old school hacker. In the 1940s, he built his own wire recorder and microphone to capture everything from his children’s Chirstmas wishes to his favorite songs and ...

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 ...