Edison Voicewriter
Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Orange, New Jersey
about 1950
Light green tin case, door flips upward, 110-volt powercable, with detachable horn and its connecting tube, electrical start/stop control and base (3 pieces)
Overall: 11 × 7 × 8 in. (27.9 × 17.8 × 20.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
2007.1.26
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Scientific Instrument
Research Area
Scientific Instrument
Scientific Instrument: Acoustics
Not on view
Published References
Patent: 1,615,114 [1927, called a "phonograph"]; serial no. KaT 506533
Provenance
Collected by Miss Margaret Andrews; Professor Daniel Marx, Jr., Economics Department, Dartmouth College; given to the Dartmouth College Museum, October 15, 1969; catalogued into the Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, 2007.
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