Magnetic Belt Recorder
date: label: date made
content: ca 1964
name: label: maker
content: International Business Machines Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This Executary dictation machine was designed to allow people to record letters and other information for later transcription. Designs for dictating machines date back to Edison’s cylinder phonograph, and magnetic recorders were also adapted for this application as they became available. IBM introduced the Execuary in 1960 and used a magnetic belt as recording medium. Less likely to break than a thin tape, the belt could be folded and mailed to correspondents with similar machines. The unit could record two tracks, one for the dictation content and a parallel track for instructions to the transcriber.
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 Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church, thru Shirley Satterfield
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.3029.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 1999.3029
label: catalog number
content: 1999.3029.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: recording device
label: Object Name
content: dictating machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 cm x 42 cm x 33 cm; 5 1/8 in x 16 17/32 in x 13 in