the RCA M-1 Wire Recorder is
a sound recorder circa 1948.
While we are unsure if this
exact wire recorder -- a precursor to
today’s audio recording devises -- was
used in classrooms, we do know that
such recorders were used to teach in
K-12 and higher education. One high
school student recalls that he worked
in the early fifties at the University of
Miami recording students in speech
classes. Part of his job description was
transcribing student speeches from
wire to Presto disks. (Veritas, 1999).
Another former student recalls his elementary
teacher in the1940s setting
up a wire recorder in the classroom
so that the students might record