Telephone Answering Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1976
name: label: maker
content: TT Systems Corp.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Telephone answering machines in the mid-twentieth century used a variety of recording media, some standard, some special. This TT Systems TeleTender IV used both. The incoming message was recorded on a standard tape cassette inserted into the top of the machine in the same manner as a portable cassette player. The outgoing message, however, was recorded on a small cartridge inserted into a slot on the side of the machine. Less than half the size of an 8-track cartridge, the cartridge received with this object is labeled, “Sunday - Summer.”
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: 2000.0101.11
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0101.11
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: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.2 cm x 28.5 cm x 24.1 cm; 4 in x 11 1/4 in x 9 1/2 in