In 1878 Oberlin Smith introduced ... and after moving from wires on drums recording analogue signals to disks capable of storing digital data, magnetic recording has firmly established itself ...

Hot stuff Heat-assisted magnetic recording is set to boost the storage capacity of ... It’s incredible how far we’ve come in magnetic storage since 1888 when the US engineer Oberlin Smith first ...

Art Cox If it weren't for Oberlin Smith, every Elvis Presley record ... Smith published the idea of storing a recording on a magnetic wire in the English journal "Electrical World'' and became ...

Oberlin Smith (1840-1926) is most famous as one ... but for his invention of magnetic recording, the technology used for audio and video recording and for computer disc drives.