Older Than deck / Inventions and everyday things
Videotape recorder
First shown in public
1956
The first practical machine for recording television on tape.
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Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source; for dates the quote is the year as printed, read in context.
“at a 1956 broadcaster’s convention in Chicago”Computer History Museum: source, retrieved 2026-10-27; quote re-found by the server check
“1956 : Ampex introduced the VR-1000”Ampex Data Systems: source, retrieved 2026-10-27; quote re-found by the server check
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