He had the wire recorder, which can record a full hour of conversation, in the rowboat.
I got down the whole story on my wire recorder.
You can't even play them on a regular wire recorder.
He put a wire recorder on the outside of the telephone booth and walked away.
"What's the name of your detective, the one with the wire recorder?"
It was a telephone intercept, usually attached to a wire recorder.
By chance, a recording was made of the performance on a wire recorder using just one microphone.
Without speaking she got out the wire recorder and handed it to him.
A wire recorder easily gives up a duplicate of the voice that spoke into it years before.
Photo of an early recording head as part of a wire recorder.