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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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current10:35, 12 January 2008Thumbnail for version as of 10:35, 12 January 2008672 × 540 (87 KB)Chetvorno{{Information |Description=Photo of a Dictaphone cylinder dictation machine, made by Columbia Phonograph Co. in the 1920s |Source=Downloaded 2008-1-12 from [http://books.google.com/books?id=KeQPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA123 Clarence Charles Smith (1922) ''The Expert

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