Nod to The Legend · The inventions · 1947
Jack Mullin and Bing Crosby
The men who brought tape to America
After World War II, Mullin brought German Magnetophon tape machines home. Bing Crosby heard them, put his radio show on tape, and backed Ampex to build American machines.
Still heard: Recording and editing on tape, and later the DAW timeline, start here.
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