While older recorders contained spools of magnetic tape, modern devices use crash-survivable digital chips. There have been increasing calls for commercial planes to be fitted with ejectable ...

Many who ventured from abroad - and not many ventured very often - came back carrying a tape recorder, a Grundig with spools of various sizes. It was brandished as a rare and precious acquisition.

For a brief period in the 1940’s it might have been possible for a young enamored soul to hand his hopeful a romantic mix-spool of wire. This was right before the magnetic tape recorder and its ...

Could a spool of magnetic tape solve one of aviation's biggest ... recovered what appears to be the flight recorders from the U.S. airliner, a task many experts and investigators thought was ...

often led to the tape turning upside down on the spools, or untangling within a cassette recorder installed in a car. Placing a pencil inside the holes of a cassette tape, and slowly twisting the ...

he joined Philips in 1952 and was head of the company’s product development department when he began work on an alternative for existing tape recorders with their cumbersome large spools of tape.

Thanks for everything, Lou,” tweeted a London-based radio show, referring to the way pencils were used to re-spool ... recorders of the time, Ottens’s compact recorder and corresponding tape ...