Reel-to-Reel Tape Recorder
date: label: date made
content: ca 1948
name: label: maker
content: Brush Development Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This model BK-416 “Soundmirror” is a modified version of Brush’s model BK-401. Like the earlier unit, the BK-416 used a paper tape coated with a magnetizable material in a reel-to-reel configuration. The retail price in 1953 was about $280, nearly $2300 in 2012 dollars. Working in parallel with Bell Laboratories and the Armour Research Foundation, Brush Development Company spearheaded American research efforts in magnetic recording prior to World War II. Building on the research of Semi Begun, the company made military wire recorders during the war and introduced consumer products like this Soundmirror after the war ended.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Magnetic Recording
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content: Communications
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Ruth W. Begun, in memory of Semi J. Begun
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.0316.02
label: accession number
content: 1995.0316
label: catalog number
content: 1995.0316.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: recording device
label: Object Name
content: tape recorder
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 15 in x 18 in; 25.4 cm x 38.1 cm x 45.72 cm