In 1940 Marvin Camras received an engineering degree from the Armour Institute of Technology and began work at the Amour Research Foundation. The prior year he had constructed a prototype wire ...

It was still a good place to start since the heads and the feed are unusual to wire recorders. Since the recorder needed a little work, we also got a nice teardown of that old device.

The Webster Chicago Electronic Memory Wire Recorder appeared in the late 1940s and significantly improved on earlier recorders. It could record for up to 60 minutes without interruption.

LET No MAN WRITE MY EPITAPH (467 pp.)—Willard Motley—Random House ($4.95).Grant Holloway is a Chicago free-lance magazine writer with "ears like wire recorders." Halfway through ...