The Audio Recorder/Player Database

 
Manufacturer: Dictaphone Corp. (Dictaphone)
Model: A-2 Special Electricord (Military)
Type: phonograph belt or strip
Place of origin: USA
Date of manufacture: 1944

Comments: Dual recording and reproducing unit for "continuous" recording--that is, when one belt was full, an automatic mechanism switched to the second belt. With this product Dictaphone introduced its new plastic belts to replace wax cylinders. Wax cylinder machines continued to be sold for many years, however. See entry for the post-WWI consumer version called the Time-Master.


 

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