Magnetic Recording: The First 100 YearsEric D. Daniel, C. Denis Mee, Mark H. Clark Electrical Engineering/History of Technology Magnetic Recording The First 100 Years The first magnetic recording device was demonstrated and patented by the Danish inventor Valdemar Poulsen in 1898. Poulsen made a magnetic recording of his voice on a length of piano wire. Magnetic Recording traces the development of the watershed products and the technical breakthroughs in magnetic recording that took place during the century from Poulsen’s experiment to today’s ubiquitous audio, video, and data recording technologies, including tape recorders, video cassette recorders, and computer hard drives. An international author team brings a unique perspective, drawn from professional experience, to the history of magnetic recording applications. Their key insights shed light on how magnetic recording triumphed over all competing technologies and revolutionized the music, radio, television, and computer industries. They also show how these developments offer opportunities for future applications. Magnetic Recording features 116 illustrations, including 92 photographs of historic magnetic recording machines and their inventors. |
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Page 94
... noise ratio of the professional recorders was marginally adequate to meet the requirements for making the highest quality master recordings , particularly if significant rerecording took place . This problem was addressed by Ray Dolby ...
... noise ratio of the professional recorders was marginally adequate to meet the requirements for making the highest quality master recordings , particularly if significant rerecording took place . This problem was addressed by Ray Dolby ...
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... noise due to dither is roughly the size of a quantizing step , it follows that the more steps are available , the further the signal can rise above the dither noise . In a 16 - bit system , there are 65,536 possible steps and so this is ...
... noise due to dither is roughly the size of a quantizing step , it follows that the more steps are available , the further the signal can rise above the dither noise . In a 16 - bit system , there are 65,536 possible steps and so this is ...
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... noise and interference sources , the figure of merit for a recording chan- nel is expressed as the signal - to - noise ratio ( SNR ) . In data recording , signal - to- noise ratio is an extremely sensitive indicator of bit error rate ...
... noise and interference sources , the figure of merit for a recording chan- nel is expressed as the signal - to - noise ratio ( SNR ) . In data recording , signal - to- noise ratio is an extremely sensitive indicator of bit error rate ...
Contents
AUDIO RECORDING | 6 |
The Telegraphone | 15 |
Steel Tape and Wire Recorders | 30 |
Copyright | |
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