An audio tape recorder, also known as a tape deck, tape player, tape machine, or simply a tape recorder, is a sound recording and reproduction device that records and plays back sounds usually using m
A reel-to-reel tape recorder from Akai, c. 1978
An early experimental non-magnetic tape recorder patented in 1886 by Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory.
Prototype of the Goodale tape recorder. The patent is based on this machine.
This tape recorder of Dr. Goodale is exhibited in the private Phonograph Museum in Mariazell, Austria.
Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.
Frances Densmore and Blackfoot chief Mountain Chief working on a recording project of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1916)
Emile Berliner with disc record gramophone
Singer Tatjana Angelini recording the Swedish voice of Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1938
Magnetic audio tapes: acetate base (left) and polyester base (right)