The Ediphone and Dictaphone line was redesigned after 1910 and sold as part of an office machine “system.” Now, instead of simply substituting for stenography, the dictation system improved the flow of correspondence creation. An important element of this new system was the adoption of the typewriter, which was now to be used to translate the recordings into letters quickly. Every aspect of dictation machine use was carefully described by the manufacturers to appeal to advocates of Scientific Office Management– a turn-of-the-century efficiency fad that emphasized office “mechanization.” The details of the new system were intended to appeal to the new realities of the office, especially the transition from relatively high-wage male clerical workers to low-wage women clerical workers and larger, centralized business offices with a more rigorously enforced set of work procedures.