Thomas Edison with Ediphone dictating machine
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- Details
- Description
- Date
- 1907 ca.
- Copyright Owner
- © Bettman / Corbis
- Object ID
- 500004582
Thomas Edison's Ediphone was like a drum memory for sound. It had a tube to speak in and the voice vibrations would be recorded on a wax cylinder. A secretary would then type up the recording and shave the used layer of the cylinder so it could be reused.
