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Alan Blumlein stereo sound recordings from 1933

Alan Dower Blumlein (1903-1942) was a prolific inventor and innovator of technology and was involved in projects as diverse as the development of radar and sound recording. In 1933 he developed his ideas on recording audio in stereo and the rest, as is often said, is history....

Listen to his experiments on the British Library Sounds website here:

http://sounds.bl.uk/Sound-recording-history/Alan-Blumlein-recordings

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Comment by Richard Ranft on July 3, 2012 at 14:36
Comment by Richard Ranft on July 3, 2012 at 14:35

See also this blog from our British Library colleague and patents expert, Steve van Dulken:

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/patentsblog/

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