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GXC-40 cassette recorder

Domestic Appliances

c.1972

Uher Portable Tape Recorder

Radio Communication

c.1970

tape recorder

Sound Reproduction

Olympus "Pencorder F' miniature reel-to-reel tape recorder

Sound Reproduction

1960-1970

Philips battery powered portable tape recorder EL3302, 1956-1963

Sound Reproduction

1956-1963

Grundig reel-to-reel portable tape recorder model TK 23L, with microphone

Sound Reproduction

1963-1967

Ferguson 3T07 Cassette Recorder

Sound Reproduction

1979-1982

Philips battery powered portable tape recorder, model EL3302 with microphone, earphones, bugging coil, and 2 carry-cases, 1956-1963. When the battery-operated Phillips EL3300 compact cassette recorder (branded initially as the Magnetophone) was unveiled at the Berlin Radio Show in August 1963 it was the world’s first compact cassette recorder. The EL3300 became an instant game changer and heralded the arrival of the compact cassette. The first units for sale arrived at the shops in mid-October 1963. The Philips EL machines proved so popular that it would remain in production for many years with hundreds of thousands of units sold. The adoption of the standard that followed led to a huge swath of related technological applications that had not been envisaged by its maker; for Philips, the unveiling of its new Compact Cassette tape and accompanying recorder was about enticing people to buy a fuss-free portable recording system. The EL3302 was an improvement over the earlier EL3300, and EL 3301 model.

Philips battery powered portable tape recorder model EL3302

Sound Reproduction

1956-1963

Baird tape recorder Mark II

Sound Reproduction

1952

Portable tape recorder used for noise measurement

Acoustics

1967

EMI 'Flatta' battery portable tape recorder

Cinematography

Robuk Reel-to-Reel Tape Recorder

Sound Reproduction

Nagra SN tape recorder

Sound Technologies

1970-1979

Cassette Recorder

Telecommunications

1982-1989

Saja tape recorder, by Sander & Jantzen, made in B

Sound Reproduction

1957

Reel-to-reel tape recorder, model TK148, with 3 re

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1970-1985

tape recorder

Sound Reproduction

Atari tape recorder

Computing & Data Processing

Atari tape recorder

Computing & Data Processing

Tape recorder deck used on Antarctic Expedition of 1956

Radio Communication

c. 1956

Tape recorder, made by Grundig, c.1960.

Audio tape recorder

Radio Communication

Magnetophon tape recorder type ton.S.d

Radio Communication

c. 1943

Tape Recorder Case Lid

Sound Reproduction

Scophony-Baird tape recorder

Sound Reproduction

1949-1952

Gramophone Tape Recorder, consisting of tape deck and battery powered preamplifier in original boxes, by Gramdeck, Stevenage, UK, c. 1960, complete with two instruction booklets. Designed to be used for converting any record turntable into a tape deck and utilising the host unit's amplifier and loudspeaker for sound reproduction. Serial numbers 27089 (tape deck) and 24999 (pre-amplifier control unit)

Gramophone tape recorder

Sound Reproduction

1960-1962

Peterson magnetic tape recorder

Cinematography

UK6 (Ariel VI) satellite tape recorder (flight spare) plus associated electronics (engineering model)

Flight spare of the tape recorder flown on the Ariel VI satellite, 1979.

Space Technology

1977-1979

Maihak clockwork reel-to-reel tape recorder. Suitcase style. With handwritten instructions on consol, plus completed shipping label on case lid for 'BBC / At British Film Unit of Scotland'. Serial No 4177. Made in Germany.

Maihak Clockwork Tape Recorder

Cinematography

Prototype four track tape recorder using 35mm 'mag track' developed by Daphne Oram, part of the Oramics machine, 1966, used to create electronic synthesized music and developed by Daphne Oram, co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Prototype four track tape recorde for Oramics Machine

Acoustics

1966

Revox A77 Tape recorder used by electro-acoustic musician Hugh Davies (1943-2005)

Revox A77 Tape recorder

Acoustics

Nagra 111 tape recorder W24 Ser No PH06812839.

Nagra 111 Tape Recorder

Cinematography

EMI tape recorder, type BTR2/AM, s/n w/16 4489

Radio Communication

EMI BTR-2 tape recorder (No. 1), 1952. The BTR-2 was EMI's first major success in broadcast tape recorder manufacturing. A mono, valve machine - versions were made to run at various speeds (the capstan had to be changed) from 7 1/2 ips to 60 ips. They provided the bulk of BBC tape recordings in the 1950s, and were still in use well into the 1970s. Beginning with the BTR-1 in 1947, the BTR (British Tape Recorder) machines were the first magnetic tape recorders to be manufactured in Britain. Their design imitated that of the magnetic tape recorders used by the Germans during the war. Because these multi-track recorders were painted EMI green, they then became known as the "Green Machines". Studio engineers devised clever ways of creating audio effects by manipulating the BTR-2 recorder functions. This created echo, and 'flanging' effects. The BTR-2 was responsible for many of the psychedelic effects of the late 1960s.

EMI BTR-2 Tape Recorder (No. 1)

Television

1952

L2 EMI lightweight battery operated tape recorder with instruction manual Ser No 15264.

L2 EMI Lightweight Battery Operated Tape Recorder

Cinematography

High quality instrumentation tape recorder made by Precision Instruments of America which was purchased in 1966 for use at the Burden Neurological Institute by a grant from the Clement & Jessie V Stone Foundation of Chicago. It records eight channels of data, either low frequency (including DC) by frequency modulation, or high frequency (100 Hz to 100 KHz) by direct recording. Three recording speeds are available 0.375 inches/second, 3.75 ips and 37.5 ips. Recordings can be made at one speed and played back at another. Sockets enable outputs from the 8 or 16 channel EEG recorders to be taped and played back.

High quality instrumentation tape recorder made by

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1966

EMI tape recorder, type BTR2A, s/n W/16 4407

Radio Communication