Telephone Answering Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1974
name: label: maker
content: PhoneMate
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: In 1971, PhoneMate introduced the Model 400 answering machine that held twenty messages on a reel-to-reel tape. An earphone allowed the user to listen privately to incoming messages. Bell Telephone resisted the introduction of answering machines for many years, fearful that people would make fewer calls if they thought they might be recorded.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
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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 PhoneMate, thru Shun Yamaura
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0371.03
label: accession number
content: 1989.0371
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0371.03
label: model number
content: 400
objectType: label: Object Name
content: answering machine
label: Object Name
content: recording device
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 cm x 24 cm x 30 cm; 3 9/16 in x 9 7/16 in x 11 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: microphone: 4 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in; 11.43 cm x 3.175 cm