Telephone Answering Machine
- Description (Brief)
- This “AutoMatic TelePhone” unit combines an answering machine with a telephone. Like many early answering machines, the tape is not in a removable format. Twenty minutes of recording time is permitted before the tape must be erased and reset to the beginning. A more advanced model featured a remote access feature that allowed the user to use a small tone-generator to activate the machine from any telephone.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1980
- maker
- American Telecommunications Corporation
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 in x 11 in x 10 in; 12.7 cm x 27.90012 cm x 25.4 cm
- ID Number
- 2000.0101.08
- catalog number
- 2000.0101.08
- accession number
- 2000.0101
- Credit Line
- from PhoneTel Communications Inc., thru Daniel Henderson
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Magnetic Recording
- Communications
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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