"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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David Looser wrote:
Wire recording dates back to the end of the 19thC, but only became
prectical with the invention of the valve amplifier. In the 1930s there
were machine that recorded on steel *tape*, such as the Blatnerphone and
the Marconi-Styles machine used by the BBC. But these machines were
crude by the standard of the German machines that recorded on flexible
tape covered with oxide.

Think your spell checker has been at work.

Much as I'd like to blame this on the spell-checker, I have to admit that I
forgotten how "Stille" was spelt and didn't take the trouble to check.

The device I remember seeing
was a Marconi-Stille. Which was simply a relic by the time I started in
broadcast in the early '60s.

It would have been!

David.
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