Ediphone
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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
29.2003.55
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: 36.5 in
Width: 14.75 in
Length: 14 in
Inscriptions
on front:
REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. / The Ediphone / BUILT BY EDISON FOR BETTER LETTERS
on plate:
TRADE MARK / Thomas A Edison / THE EDIPHONE / PATENTED MAR 23 1909 [obscured]1909 JAN. 11 1916 JAN. 23 [obscured] / [...] / SERIAL No 158458 / THOMAS A. EDISON, INC., ORANGE, N.J. U.S.A.
on speaking tube:
PATENTED / JUNE [obscured], 1921 / NOV. 1, 1921 / Electrip Sanitube
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