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NOW that the telephone has become, even in this country, an instrument of such universal commercial and general employment, the advantages of an apparatus that will satisfactorily record the messages transmitted through an ordinary telephone line are so strikingly apparent that it is unnecessary to enlarge upon them. That it should have been possible to construct such an apparatus has been evident since the invention of the phonograph. But the direct combination of the phonograph with the telephone, which seems so simple in theory, has presented difficulties in practice which up to the present have not been successfully overcome, and the phonograph of to-day, over twenty years since its invention, remains little more than a scientific toy, whereas its contemporary, the telephone, has become an almost indispensable adjunct of civilisation. It would appear, however, that the problem of recording telephone messages is nearing a practical solution, for there have been quite recently put forward, under the names respectively of the “Telephonograph” and the “Telegraphone,” two separate inventions of a recording telephone.
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Recording Telephones . Nature 62, 371–373 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062371a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/062371a0