Reel-to-Reel Wire Recorder
date: label: date made
content: ca 1945
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This GE wire recorder is a licensed copy of the Armour model 50 recorder designed and made for the U.S. military during World War II. Based on the work of Marvin Camras, Armour fabricated wire recorders at a small, specially-built plant until 1944. The demand for increased production of recorders led GE to begin production of the model 51.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Armed Forces Radio Service used a variety of recording devices, including wire recorders, to bring programming to troops stationed around the world. This wire recorder used four vacuum tubes and ran on alternating current.
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 Fred and Ginger Mitchell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0438.01
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0438.01
label: accession number
content: 1992.0438
objectType: label: Object Name
content: wire recorder
label: Object Name
content: recording device
label: Other Terms
content: wire recorder; Transmission; Storage; Communications
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 37.5 cm x 27 cm x 32.5 cm; 14 3/4 in x 10 5/8 in x 12 13/16 in