Bang & Olufsen - Beocord 84 U Geluidsrecorder

Very rare and a collector's item

B&O Beocord 84 U Wired recorder, incl. 6 pieces. wire band
Launch year: 1947

Not tested, appear to be used sport but is nice for exhibition use.

Comes from the Danish B&O museum

There is a lid for it, the lid is extremely rare, as it was extra equipment

When Bang & Olufsen started rebuilding the factory after World War II (the B&O factory was blown up during World War II) there were many ideas for what could be made in addition to radios and speakers etc. One of the things that Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen had found out was an invention made in the USA during the war. It is a machine for recording and reproducing sound. The system is based on a thin magnetisable steel wire, which can be recorded and deleted an infinite number of times. The sound quality achieved is limited by the frequency range that goes to 7 kHz.

We managed to make contact with the "inventor" - which was Amour Foundation Corporation Inc. in Chicago - and an agreement on license production was concluded by chief engineer Lorenz Duus Hansen, who was sent over there.

The result was the Beocord 84 U, which for the next four years was almost alone on the market within this product group. It was only when the audio tape was a product of maturity in the early 1950s that the Beocord wire recorders were replaced by a Beocord tape recorder in 1952.

The name Beocord was chosen because they wanted to resume the initialization Beo and add here the English term for wire