The Dictaphone
date: label: date made
content: 1897-1922
name: label: manufacturer for Dictaphone Company of America
content: American Graphophone Company
notes: label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.313449
label: catalog number
content: 313449
label: accession number
content: 186797
label: serial number
content: A 2359
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dictating Machine
label: Object Name
content: dictating machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal: steel (dictating machine material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood: Oak (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (part: belt material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 1/2 in x 17 in x 11 3/4 in; 39.37 cm x 43.18 cm x 29.845 cm
label: Measurements
content: 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
label: Measurements
content: mandrel: 6 1/4 in; x 15.875 cm
label: Measurements
content: 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