Answering Machine, Circa 1924
June 18th, 2008
Filed under: Strange Artifacts
And here we thought all they did in those days was do Fats Waller.
An ad for an answering machine published in a 1924 issue of Popular Mechanics. The machine even has a dial indicator that shows how many calls the owner missed.
More early such contraptions here.
{Intriguing: World’s first computer mouse, circa 1964}
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