Telephone Answering Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1982
name: label: maker
content: Ford Industries, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The model 1100 Code-a-Phone was one of several telephone answering machines Ford industries produced in the early 1980s. Not everyone appreciated the new technology. Some callers, offended to be talking to a machine instead of a person, would hang up when the machine began playing the outgoing message. Sensing a market opportunity, Ford Industries began selling an inexpensive book, “How To Make Your Code-a-Phone Talk Funny,” with the goal of using humor to smooth ruffled feathers.
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: 2000.0101.05
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0101.05
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: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11.4 cm x 21.5 cm x 27.9 cm; 4 1/2 in x 8 7/16 in x 11 in