On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:09:42 -0500, FBMBoomer wrote:



I remember seeing a documentary years ago that said that the Nazis
invented wire and tape recording. It sounds reasonable that they may
have done just that. The U-boat operator would have had to have gotten a
"ready to receive" first from the shore station. I would expect then
that the shore station would be recording and then play it back slowly
so as to be able to read the Morse characters.

Toward the end of the war Hitler got paranoid about bombing and had his
speeches tape recorded and then played back on a radio station in a city
where he was not. It actually fooled the Allies because they had never
heard such clear playback and assumed it was live. This was another
technology that the US was quick to acquire at the end of the war.

Bing Crosby was very interested in tape recording and was one of the
first to really exploit the medium after the war.