Bell Labs hid the invention of magnetic recording tape (2010)

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Magnetic recording tape was invented in 1935 by the German company BASF and the first reel-to-reel recording device, the Magnetophon K1, was presented in the same year by AEG.

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Interesting, thanks for the comment. I didn’t know this when I posted.

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