Okay, okay I know I'm compulsive but after writing this Woody Guthrie recording restoration story I had to see what Magnetic Wire really was/is...and I found the info on Wikipedia.com of course-- here's an excerpt...Wire recording is a type of analogue audio storage in which the recording is made onto thin steel or stainless steel wire.
pix of wire recorder courtesy of wikipedia.com
WIKIPEDIA EXPLAINS ....The first wire recorder was the Valdemar Poulsen Telegraphone of the late 1890s, and wire recorders for law/office dictation and telephone recording .......through the 1920s and 1930s. Turns out they were intro'd as consumer tech after WWII
Wire recording's most widespread use was in the 1940s and early 1950s, following the development of inexpensive designs licensed internationally by the Brush Development Company of Cleveland, Ohio and the Armour Research Foundation of the Armour Institute of Technology (later Illinois Institute of Technology). These two organizations licensed dozens of manufacturers in the U.S., Japan, and Europe.
Here's the wikipedia reference to the Woody Guthrie recording: In 1949 at Fuld Hall in Rutgers University, Paul Braverman made a 75-minute recording of a Woody Guthrie concert using a wire recorder. The recording only came to light in 2001, and appears to be the only surviving live recording of Woody Guthrie; it was restored over several years and released on CD in 2007. The CD was subsequently nominated for and won a 2008 Grammy award.[2]
webster wire recorder sample -- from Chicago-- similar to the one that had the Woody Guthrie song on it ...that later earned the Grammy for restoration!
FROM GOOGLE -- pocket size wire recorder as seen in POPULAR MECHANICS... See full-size image.
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