Image: Transcription using cylinder phonograph

Description: Drawing of a typist transcribing dictation using an early wax cylinder phonograph. Although the phonograph was first invented by Thomas A. Edison, the source text says this was a machine called the 'G', invented by Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester A. Bell, and Sumner Tainter. The typist pumps the treadle with his foot, turning the cylinder to play back the recording, and listens to it using 'stethoscope' type earphones. Extra wax cylinders, and a funnel-like mouthpiece used to record dictation, are seen on the desk. Alterations to image: removed caption, which read, "The Gramophone used in transcribing". The device shown is technically not a gramophone, which was a disk recording device.
Title: Transcription using cylinder phonograph
Credit: Downloaded 2008-02-03 from John Clark Ridpath, ed. (1897) The Standard American Encyclopedia, Vol.3, The Encyclopedia Publishing Co., New York, USA, p.1199, fig.1 on Google Books
Author: The drawing is signed, 'Electrical World, N.Y.'
Permission: Public domain - published in US before 1923
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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