{"id":21935,"date":"2016-05-16T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21935"},"modified":"2016-10-28T18:24:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T22:24:25","slug":"tape-recording-was-introduced-70-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21935","title":{"rendered":"May 16, 1946\u202670 Years Ago Today, America Met Audio Tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 16, 1946&#8230;70 Years Ago Today, America Met Audio Tape<\/p>\n<p>As a compliment to today&#8217;s earlier story on the history of AMPEX, here is a companion article on Jack Mullin, who, on this day in 1946, stunned attendees at the annual Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) conference in San Francisco. <\/p>\n<p>There, with a captured German Magnetophon, switching between a live jazz combo and a recording of the group, literally asked the question &#8220;Is it live or&#8230;?&#8221; None of the golden ears in the audience could tell. It was America&#8217;s first public demonstration of audio tape recording. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.recode.net\/2016\/5\/16\/11672678\/tape-recording-70th-anniversary-jack-mullin\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tape recording was introduced 70 years ago today\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477163385_626_Tape-recording-was-introduced-70-years-ago-today.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.recode.net\/2016\/5\/16\/11672678\/tape-recording-70th-anniversary-jack-mullin\">Tape recording was introduced 70 years ago today<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A case of insomnia led to the introduction of tape recording \u2014 and, by extension, the entire home media business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/1010196709017878\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 16, 1946&#8230;70 Years Ago Today, America Met Audio Tape As a compliment to today&#8217;s earlier story on the history of AMPEX, here is a companion article on Jack Mullin, who, on this day in 1946, stunned attendees at the annual Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) conference in San Francisco. There, with a captured German [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[780,709,787],"class_list":["post-21935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ampex","tag-engineer","tag-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}