[78-L] November 9, 1921

[Michael Biel]

  My reply was based on your use of the idea that the lack of a tape 
recorder was the problem.  I should have also included that wire 
recorders were already in use.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com


On 8/22/2010 11:31 PM, Donna Halper wrote:
>> Mister Mike wrote--
>>
>> But there WERE recording machines capable of recording broadcasts on
>> cylinder and disc.  I have a cylinder box here (no cylinder
>> unfortunately) of portions of a WGY broadcast that was recorded in Cape
>> Town South Africa and sent to WGY sometime in the early 20s.
> My point was not that it couldn't be done at all -- it wasn't
> commonly done by some of the earliest stations, based on what I've
> read about the subject.  Perhaps some of the individual entrepreneurs
> who got into the radio game in the early 20s had insufficient
> technical knowledge, plus the newspapers frequently reported on
> equipment failures of radio stations.  I am sure GE and Westinghouse
> could do it, but we don't have many recordings from back then, do we?
> Just recreations and assorted fakes, as well as a few brief snippets
> of recorded programs, unless I am mistaken (which wouldn't be the first time!).
>
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