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Audio & Broadcast History

How recorded sound came to be — the phonograph and the record, magnetic tape and the cassette, the compact disc, the recording studio, and the vacuum-tube era of radio.

Phonograph

Phonograph

Phonograph record

Phonograph record

Magnetic tape

Magnetic tape

Tape recorder

Tape recorder

Compact Cassette

Compact Cassette

8-track cartridge

8-track cartridge

Recording studio

Recording studio

Vacuum tube

Vacuum tube

Reel-to-reel tape

Reel-to-reel tape

Wax cylinder

Wax cylinder