Magnetic Disk Recorder
date: label: date made
content: ca 1947
name: label: maker
content: Brush Development Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This Brush “Mail-A-Voice” recorder was designed in the late 1940s as an office dictating machine. As tape recording technology was developed, experimenters tried a variety of formats including flat paper or plastic discs. These discs resembled the record players familiar to many in that era and did not require threading a wire or tape. The discs could also be folded and mailed to a recipient in an ordinary business-size envelope, something impossible to do with an inflexible record.
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 Ruth W. Begun, in memory of Semi J. Begun
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.3101.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 1995.3101
label: catalog number
content: 1995.3101.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: recording device
label: Object Name
content: dictating machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 12 in x 10 1/2 in; 15.24 cm x 30.48 cm x 26.67 cm