Fritz Pfleumer Invents Magnetic Tape for Recording Sound

1927
Photograph of Fritz Pfleumer from Daniel, Mee, and Clark, Electrical Recording: The First Hundred Years (1998).
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Photograph of Fritz Pfleumer from Daniel, Mee, and Clark, Electrical Recording: The First Hundred Years (1998).The authors claimed that this was the only known photograph of Pfleumer. Undoubtedly there were others since the Wikipedia article on Pfleumer reproduces two other photographs of him.

In 1927 German-Austrian engineer Fritz Pfleumer invented magnetic tape for recording sound, coating very thin paper with iron-oxide using lacquer as glue. He sold the rights to AEG in 1932.

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Technology / Engineering
Sound / Video Recording
Music