File:Dictaphone_cylinder_machine.jpg
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DescriptionDictaphone cylinder machine.jpg |
English: Photo of a Dictaphone wax cylinder dictation machine, made by Columbia Graphophone Company in the 1920s. The user pressed a button on the mouthpiece, which started the cylinder turning, and spoke into it. The sound travelled down the tube and vibrated a membrane attached to a needle cutting a groove in the wax surface of the cylinder. The needle inscribes a record of the sound vibrations into the cylinder. To replay it, the mouthpiece was detached and replaced with a pair of 'stethoscope' type earphones. Each wax cylinder can hold about 1200-1500 words, and can be reused 100-120 times by erasing it with a machine that 'shaves' the surface off. Alterations: removed caption, erased noise in white areas, increased brightness. |
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Source | Downloaded 2008-1-12 from Clarence Charles Smith (1922) The Expert Typist, MacMillan Co., New York, USA, p.123, fig.37 on Google Books. The photo is credited (p.122) to the Columbia Phonograph Co. |
Author | Columbia Phonograph Co. |
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Public domain - published in USA before 1923. |
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