Ediphone, Model E
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Artifact Overview
Dictaphones and Ediphones were sound recording devices used for efficient oral dictation in business settings. When Edison invented the phonograph, one proposed use was "dictation without the aid of stenographers." Its tinfoil playback medium lacked quality, however. Alexander Graham Bell's Graphophone (later, Dictaphone) improved the phonograph by using wax cylinders for superior playback; cylinders were also used in the competing Ediphone.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Dictating machine
Creators
Place of Creation
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
29.2003.18
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Material
Composition (Material)
Iron alloy
Nickel (Metal)
Textile
Wax
Color
Black (Color)
Gold (Color)
Silver (Color)
Dimensions
Height: 36 in
Width: 13 in
Length: 11 in
Inscriptions
on front:
Edison
on plate:
EDISON DICTATING MACHINE / TYPE [blank] MODEL E / MANUFACTURED UNDER THE PATENTS OF / THOMAS A. EDISON, and others at Orange, N.J. / NOV. 17, 1903. / [...] / NOV, 8, 1910. / THIS MACHINE IS SOLD UPON THE CONDITION THAT IT IS LICENSED TO BE USED OR VENDED ONLY SO AS THE SERIAL NUMBER 90145 IS NOT REMOVED OR CHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART, AND THAT EVERY POSSESSOR OF THIS MACHINE ADMITS THE VALIDITY OF THE ABOVE ENUMERATED PATENTS.
on reproducer:
REPRODUCER LICENSED FOR USE ONLY ON EDISON PHONOGRAPHS SOLD BY EDISON BUSINESS PHONO. CO.
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