Telephone Answering Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1966
name: label: maker
content: Western Electric
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This Code-A-Phone 700 answering machine was produced in 1966, several years before a series of legal battles forced Bell Telephone to allow connection of non-Bell equipment to their telephone lines. Ultimately the Code-A-Phone was produced by Ford Industries with parts made by Western Electric, the Bell System’s manufacturing unit. Having decided that they could not prevent the use of answering machines, Bell used Code-A-Phone in an attempt to control the market.
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 Richard S. Otto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0224.01
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0224.01
label: accession number
content: 1996.0224
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: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12.7 cm x 35.5 cm x 39.4 cm; 5 in x 13 31/32 in x 15 1/2 in