Magnetic Disk Recorder
Magnetic Disk Recorder
- Description (Brief)
- This Brush “Mail-A-Voice” recorder was designed in the late 1940s as an office dictating machine. As tape recording technology was developed, experimenters tried a variety of formats including flat paper or plastic discs. These discs resembled the record players familiar to many in that era and did not require threading a wire or tape. The discs could also be folded and mailed to a recipient in an ordinary business-size envelope, something impossible to do with an inflexible record.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1947
- maker
- Brush Development Company
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- rubber (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 in x 12 in x 10 1/2 in; 15.24 cm x 30.48 cm x 26.67 cm
- ID Number
- 1995.3101.01
- nonaccession number
- 1995.3101
- catalog number
- 1995.3101.01
- Credit Line
- from Ruth W. Begun, in memory of Semi J. Begun
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Magnetic Recording
- Communications
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
