Dictaphone Greeting Card

Dictaphone was developed by Alexander Graham Bell at Volta Laboratory in 1881. Once they had perfected the art of recording speech to a wax cylinder so that it could be played back for someone to type, they formed the Volta Graphophone Company and begin to market them to professionals who could just speak what they wanted to be typed and then allow their secretaries to handle the dictation. Volta Graphophone later merged with American Graphophone Company which later became Columbia Records.
These machines were a staple item in the offices of Physicians and Attorneys who regularly dictated letters and reports. The Dictaphone pictured here is on display at the 1940 Air Terminal Museum in Houston, Texas.

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