Word: phonaudograph
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Central Dictation. Connecticut's Gray Manufacturing Co., which invented the pay telephone in 1888, announced a new dictation device for office use. Instead of an individual machine that must be moved from office to office, the "PhonAudograph" is a central recording device connected through individual private wires to as many offices as need the service. The user merely picks up his special telephone, presses one button when talking, another when he wants a playback. For a correction, he presses a third button; a fourth button ends the transcription...
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