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The Dictaphone
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Title:
The Dictaphone
NFSA ID
424012
'Dictaphone' is a trademarked name, but the term has come to be synonymous with machines used to record the voice.
This incarnation, complete with horn and hose records speech direct onto a wax cylinder.
Manufactured in Australia, circa 1920s. The metal plate on the front reads 'The Dictaphone, trade mark. 19 Hunter Street, Sydney. Phones B2187 – 5716 and at Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide.'
Photographer
Brooke Shannon
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.