Object Details
- Ansafone Corporation
- Description (Brief)
- Ansafone Corporation first sold telephone answering machines in the United States in 1960. As seen in inventor Kuzuo Hashimoto's patent (US 3376390) the Ansafone used a single tape cartridge system for incoming messages. Another tape looped through the machine and played the outgoing message. The user placed an ordinary desk phone on top of the Ansafone. Two arms slid under the handset. An incoming call would cause the arms to lift the handset and play the outgoing message. Once the incoming message was recorded, the Ansafone replaced the handset in the cradle, hanging up the phone.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- from PhoneTel Communications Inc., thru Daniel Henderson
- ca 1968
- ID Number
- 2000.0101.02
- catalog number
- 2000.0101.02
- accession number
- 2000.0101
- Object Name
- telephone answering machine
- recording device
- answering machine
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- rubber (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 22.8 cm x 20.3 cm x 35.5 cm; 9 in x 8 in x 14 in
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Magnetic Recording
- Communications
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1299444
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-d01c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
