THE GREAT MULLARD MAGIC BLOG — stefan kudeslki

  Stefan Kudelski was born on Feb. 27, 1929, in Warsaw. He escaped Poland with his family at the start of World War II and settled in Switzerland.   After being awarded a degree in physics and engineering, he started his company in 1951 as an engineering design firm. which has since become a major Swiss manufacturer of media and security equipment.    Kudelski was an engineering undergraduate  in 1951 when he patented his first portable recording device, the Nagra I, a reel-to-reel tape recorder, about the size of a shoe box that weighed approximately  6kg whilst producing sound as good as that of most phone...