[78-L] earliest recorded fon call

[AllenAmet at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/16/2008 2:34:37 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
chaumelle at orange.fr writes:

Poulsen,  in Denmark, had a phone answering device, working on steel  
ribbon(s)  in 1899.

BC


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   From PHP, I see this entry, re early telephonic recording:  (and don't 
forget the famous #2909 - by Edison - in England either). One could  say a 
primary purpose of the very first phonograph in 1877 was to serve as  a telephone 
recorder.
 
"Interestingly, C. W. Harrison of England managed to add a strip-recorder  to 
his own telephonic relay (4934 of Dec. 29, 1877; cf. C.A. McEvoy's #4847 of  
Dec. 20, 1877).

"In England, Henry Edmunds (who indirectly brought  about  Queen Victoria's 
only surviving recording) applied for a patent on  Sept. 5, 1888 to use the 
Treadle-style Graphophone to record a speaker's  telephone transmissions at the 
source (#12,860);"

Allen
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