Ediphone, Model D
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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
29.2003.6
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Material
Metal
Wood (Plant material)
Color
Brown
Black (Color)
Gold (Color)
Dimensions
Height: 36 in
Width: 17 in
Length: 13 in
Weight: 102 lbs
Inscriptions
on plate:
EDISON BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH / TYPE [blank] MODEL D / MANUFACTURED UNDER THE PATENTS OF / THOMAS A. EDISON, et als, at Orange, N.J., U.S.A. / JUN.26, 1900. (RE-ISSUED SEPT. 25, 1900.) / [...] / DEC. 31, 1907 / OTHER PATENTS PENDING / THIS MACHINE IS SOLD UPON THE CONDITION THIS IT IS LICENSED TO BE USED OR VENDED ONLY SO LONG AS THIS SERIAL NUMBER 14796 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 base:
Thomas A Edison / TRADE / MARK
on front:
Edison
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