Object Details
- American Telecommunications Corporation
- Description (Brief)
- This “AutoMatic TelePhone” unit combines an answering machine with a telephone. Like many early answering machines, the tape is not in a removable format. Twenty minutes of recording time is permitted before the tape must be erased and reset to the beginning. A more advanced model featured a remote access feature that allowed the user to use a small tone-generator to activate the machine from any telephone.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- from PhoneTel Communications Inc., thru Daniel Henderson
- 1980
- ID Number
- 2000.0101.08
- catalog number
- 2000.0101.08
- accession number
- 2000.0101
- Object Name
- telephone answering machine
- recording device
- answering machine
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 in x 11 in x 10 in; 12.7 cm x 27.90012 cm x 25.4 cm
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Magnetic Recording
- Communications
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1299450
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-d8b4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
