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$100
Dictaphone 1930's Portable Electric
Price:
$100
Location:
Minneapolis, MN
Description:
1881 Alexander Graham Bell, his cousin Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter, a scientist and instrument maker, after working in the late 1870's on the problem of recording and reproducing sound for use with the telephone, produced the first recording device that used a rotating cylinder on whose wax coating a steel stylus would cut up-and-down grooves.1888 Bell and Tainter formed the Volta Graphophone Co. in Bridgeport, Conn., and began to manufacture machines for the recording and reproduction of sound by businesses in office settings.1907 the patent was sold to the American Graphophone Co., which eventually became the Columbia Graphophone Co, and the Dictaphone was trademarked by Columbia.1923 Dictaphone Corporation was created from the old Columbia Graphophone Corporation. The new company flourished, creating the popular Dictaphone Telecord central telephone recording.1939 the first electronic dictation machines were introduced.This one is one of the electric portable dictaphones. Weighs 40 pounds, has wooden wheels, uses Wax cylinders with storage racks for cylinders below. Great for a collector, or as a secretary joke. Roll it into her office and tell her you want a letter typed. Also a great museum piece. Location is in north minneapolis. Call Rita 612-521-XXXX
Category:
Antiques
Posted:
November 14 2023 on Americanlisted
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