Wire recorders were primarily aimed at business where they were used as dictation machines. Later machines with removable spools had the anti-spill method to keep the wire on the spool. Until the anti-spill feature was developed, one could take a spool out and have it quickly unravel into a mess. It did, however, have to be wound nicely on a spool, rather like fishing line winds on a reel (as opposed to tape, where the tape simply wound on top of itself). Wire had the advantage of high tensile strength-it was difficult to break or stretch. Steel wire (or iron-coated metal wire) could be magnetized and would thus store information. Wire recorders used a spool of wire as their medium. They dabbled in other lines, but those are their main claims to fame, and the items you are most likely to find these days. Webster-Chicago, of Chicago, Illinois, is known primarily for three consumer-electronics product lines: wire recorders, tape recorders, and phonographs. Webcor (Webster-Chicago) Notes on Webcor ProductsĪ lot of this information is salt & peppered through the site, but this gathers it together and makes a good collection space for anything that is useful or interesting to know but doesn't really fit elsewhere.
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