An argument between two strong-willed inventors - Bill Lear and Earl "Madman" Muntz - sparked the world's first mobile app. Here, for the first time, is the story behind the development of the 8 Track tape player. In late 1965, consumers had two ready options for listening to recorded music - a radio or a record player. But with baby boomers just coming of age in the 1960s, along with new advances in magnetic tape and an explosion of music, Lear and his team ignored the naysayers and developed the 8 Track tape player and tape cartridges. Through a friendship with Henry Ford II, chairman and...
An argument between two strong-willed inventors - Bill Lear and Earl "Madman" Muntz - sparked the world's first mobile app. Here, for the first time, ...
