Telephone Answering Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1968
name: label: maker
content: Ansafone Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Ansafone Corporation first sold telephone answering machines in the United States in 1960. As seen in inventor Kuzuo Hashimoto's patent (US 3376390) the Ansafone used a single tape cartridge system for incoming messages. Another tape looped through the machine and played the outgoing message. The user placed an ordinary desk phone on top of the Ansafone. Two arms slid under the handset. An incoming call would cause the arms to lift the handset and play the outgoing message. Once the incoming message was recorded, the Ansafone replaced the handset in the cradle, hanging up the phone.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Magnetic Recording
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content: Communications
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from PhoneTel Communications Inc., thru Daniel Henderson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0101.02
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0101.02
label: accession number
content: 2000.0101
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telephone answering machine
label: Object Name
content: recording device
label: Object Name
content: answering machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.8 cm x 20.3 cm x 35.5 cm; 9 in x 8 in x 14 in