[SunRescue] RE: old storage

[Robert Wersan]

The device could have been an adaptation of the wire recorder, a German
invention used first in WWII sound recording -- a forerunner of the tape
recorder. Essentially, it used wire instead of tape.

 Wire recorders came to the U.S. postwar. Just several days ago I
heard an excerpt of an interview with Clement Atlee (immediate postwar
prime minister of Great Britain) done on a wire recorder for CBS. To
splice, knot the tag ends of the wire and apply a lit cigarette end to
shooth out the bump.


>. . .  that used a metal wire run through a magnetic reader of some sort. 

Bob Wersan -- vintage 12/20/37

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Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

-- Alexander Pope, 1688-1744