Ediphone Voicewriter, 1930-1950
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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
1930-1950
Creators
Place of Creation
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
2014.0.17.134
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Cardboard
Chromium
Paper (Fiber product)
Rubber (Material)
Steel (Alloy)
Wax
Dimensions
Height: 33 in
Width: 11.5 in
Length: 13 in
Inscriptions
plaque:
Ediphone
Patent 1,615,114
Serial No. KfD 554948
cylinder covers:
Edison Ediphone
Thomas A. Edison Voicewriter
Master Wax
Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated
West Orange, N.J.
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