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80 Years of the Tape Recorder

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August 16, 2015

On 16.08.1935, the AEG company launched the world's first tape recorder, the “Magnetophon K1.” The invention of the tape recorder revolutionized music and brought it closer to the public: for the first time, people could make their own recordings of both music and language.

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