Arthur Devine, a professional tool and die maker branched out on his own in 1969 to start Magnetic Arts Corp. It wasn't long before his reputation in precision grinding and innovations in magnetic head manufacturing landed several exclusive orders for glass bonded cores for recording heads used in tape and hard drives. In the years that followed he developed a plethora of processes for grinding, slicing, polishing and glass bonding essential to volume production of these cores.

By 1975 fifty employees were turning out 50,000 head cores per week. As the disk drive technology evolved, Magnetic Arts matched each new requirement, producing cores that enabled the highest recording density available at the time.

In 1989 the technology was sold to Impremis Div. Of Control Data Corp. (Later Seagate Technology). Magnetic Arts, now called Advanced Recording Technologies (A-R-T), embarked on the use of laser technology to align and reduce the track width of recording heads. The laser technology was incorporated into the manufacturing of precision tape recording heads to be used by Digital Equipment Corp.

A-R-T then re-adapted the name Magnetic Arts as a Division that distributed magnets and ferrites. In addition to selling a large variety of industrial magnets and ferrites, this division developed a magnetic health product line, currently marketing magnetic beads, clasps and therapeutic patches.

Precision Laser Micromachining soon became the main focus of Advanced Recording Technologies. The marriage of precision grinding, lapping and laser micromachining gained a unique niche for A-R-T in the micro fabrication technology field.