Dictabelt

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The Dictabelt or Memobelt was a form of recording medium introduced by the American Dictaphone company in 1947. It used a stylus to record sounds by pressing a groove into a replaceable plastic belt. Previously, Dictaphone's products had used wax cylinders as their recording medium.

Along with a Gray Audograph sound recorder, a Dictabelt captured sounds recorded at the time of the John F. Kennedy assassination that were reviewed by the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations.

[edit] See also

• Dictabelt evidence relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy

[edit] External links

• Audio Recording History
• History of the Dictation Equipment Industry
• Can technology settle the Lone Gunman controversy in the JFK assassination?
• The Audograph and the Kennedy assassination

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