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Transcribing dictation with a Dictaphone wax cylinder dictation machine, in the early 1920s. Note supply of extra wax cylinders on lower part of stand. A dictation machine is a sound recording device most commonly used to record speech for playback or to be typed into print. It includes digital voice recorders and tape recorder.
Dictaphone was spun off into a separate company in 1923 under the leadership of C. King Woodbridge. [2] In 1947, having relied on wax-cylinder recording to the end of World War II, Dictaphone introduced its Dictabelt technology. This cut a mechanical groove into a Lexan plastic belt instead of into a wax cylinder. The advantage of the Lexan ...
The Dictabelt system was popular, and by 1952, made up 90% of Dictaphone's sales. [5] Dictabelts were more convenient and provide better audio quality than the reusable wax cylinders they replaced. The belts can be folded for storage and will fit into an ordinary letter-size envelope. However, the plastic loses flexibility as it ages.
The user turns the cylinder by pumping the treadle, and speaks into the mouthpiece. The recording is played back by replacing the mouthpiece with the 'stethoscope' type earphones lying on the desk. Extra wax cylinders are seen on the desk. Alterations to image: removed caption, which read: "The Gramophone receiving a dictation". Date: 1897: Source
Sales of the gramophone record overtook the cylinder ca. 1910, and by the end of World War I the disc had become the dominant commercial recording format. Edison, who was the main producer of cylinders, created the Edison Disc Record in an attempt to regain his market. The double-sided (nominally 78 rpm) shellac disc was the standard consumer ...
Ediphone, Dictaphone: A Dictaphone cylinder for voice recording Analog, the Ediphone and subsequent wax cylinders used in Edison's other product lines continued to be sold up until 1929 when the Edison Manufacturing Company folded. 1894 Pathé cylinder The vertical-groove pathé cylinder Mechanical analog; vertical grooves, vertical stylus ...
Phonograph cylinders (also referred to as Edison cylinders after its creator Thomas Edison) are the earliest commercial medium for recording and reproducing sound.Commonly known simply as "records" in their heyday (c. 1896–1916), a name which has been passed on to their disc-shaped successor, these hollow cylindrical objects have an audio recording engraved on the outside surface which can ...
This was because many executives (included IBM's own) were reluctant to use dictation machines. IBM was the market leader by 1965, outselling their biggest competitor Dictaphone and driving Ediphone (a division of Edison) out of the market. [2] Unit sales peaked in 1969 at 98,000 units, which was roughly a 33% market share. [3]