Norelco Dictation Equipment
The traditional way to dictate in an office was to speak aloud to a secretary. Since then mechanical dictation equipment has evolved to provide more cost effective, productive and communicative means to compose correspondence.
The History of Dictation DevicesThomas A. Edison’s phonograph was invented in 1877 and was initially proposed for entertainment use, but instead made its name as being the first office dictation.
Office dictation was one of the first commercial applications for sound recording in the 19th century.
Following that, the Dictaphone and Thomas A. Edison companies introduced upgraded technology in 1945 and after a series of new models more forms of dictation were created. Almost all of them were based on magnetic recording.
From the late 1940s to early 1950s wire recorders were supplied with foot pedals for transcription so secretaries could pause and replay dictation. An example of this is the Model 288 Wire Recorder from Webster-Chicago .
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