Telephone Answering Machine
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Object Details
- Hashimoto Corporation, Ltd.
- Description (Brief)
- This Phonetel model KH-141B answering machine used a removable cartridge to record telephone calls. This unit, with just a few simple controls, was imported from Hashimoto Corporation of Japan. The founder of that company, Kazuo Hashimoto, held several answering machine patents.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- from PhoneTel Communications Inc., thru Daniel Henderson
- ca 1980
- ID Number
- 2000.0101.10
- catalog number
- 2000.0101.10
- accession number
- 2000.0101
- Object Name
- telephone answering machine
- recording device
- answering machine
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7.6 cm x 23.5 cm x 20.3 cm; 3 in x 9 1/4 in x 8 in
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- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Magnetic Recording
- Communications
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1299452
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-d0be-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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