Ediphone, Model E, 1913-1915
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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
Date Made
1913-1915
Creators
Place of Creation
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
29.2003.59
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Material
Nickel (Metal)
Steel (Alloy)
Plastic
Textile
Copper (Metal)
Dimensions
Height: 12 in
Width: 9.5 in
Length: 13 in
Weight: 45 lbs
Inscriptions
top, plaque:
Edison Dictating Machine
Type __ Model E
Manufactured under the patents of
Thomas A. Edison and Others at Orange, N.J., U.S.A.
Nov. 17 1903 . . . .Nov. 8 1910
Serial No. 41328
[licensing information]
top:
Thomas A. Edison
Trade Mark
plaque, rear:
Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.
Inspected
Motor Operated Appliance
Type A No
cover:
The Genuine Edison Dictating Machine
The Ediphone
Built by Edison for Better Letters
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