Telephone Answering Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1985
name: label: maker
content: Pitney Bowes
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: While some answering machines used special recording formats, this model 757 “Dictaphone” used standard cassettes for both incoming and outgoing messages. The user could set the machine to record a 30 second incoming message or use a “continuous” setting to record however long a message the caller wanted to leave. A text transcription of the outgoing message shows this machine was used at the Indiana University Dental Clinic.
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: 2000.0101.03
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0101.03
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: 7.6 cm x 25.4 cm x 33 cm; 3 in x 10 in x 13 in