The Dictaphone
The Dictaphone
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Dictating Machine
- dictating machine
- date made
- 1897-1922
- manufacturer for Dictaphone Company of America
- American Graphophone Company
- Physical Description
- metal: steel (dictating machine material)
- wood: Oak (case material)
- leather (part: belt material)
- Measurements
- overall: 15 1/2 in x 17 in x 11 3/4 in; 39.37 cm x 43.18 cm x 29.845 cm
- case bottom plus machine (no horn): 13 in x 17 in x 11 3/4 in; 33.02 cm x 43.18 cm x 29.845 cm
- mandrel: 6 1/4 in; x 15.875 cm
- overall: 13 3/8 in x 16 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in; 33.9725 cm x 41.91 cm x 29.21 cm
- ID Number
- ME.313449
- catalog number
- 313449
- accession number
- 186797
- serial number
- A 2359
- Credit Line
- Transfer from Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution
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- Work and Industry: Mechanisms
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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