Cartridge Wire Recorder
date: label: date made
content: ca 1948
name: label: maker
content: Radio Corporation of America
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This model MI-12525 RCA wire recorder shows one answer to a major problem of using steel wire to record sound. The recording wire is wound into a cartridge. The user simply inserts the cartridge into the recorder and can quickly begin using the machine. This machine was designed for use in office dictation around 1948.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Early magnetic recorders used steel wire or steel bands as a recording medium instead of plastic tape. Steel wire was fragile and tangled easily. Threading a recording machine took a certain amount of finesse and the wire could easily break if mishandled.
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 Marianthe Karaberi
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0034.01
label: accession number
content: 2002.0034
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0034.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: wire recorder
label: Object Name
content: recording device
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (internal mechanism material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (internal mechanism material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 cm x 35.5 cm x 30.5 cm; 11 in x 14 in x 12 in