GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: THE EDIPHONE

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The Ediphone was Thomas Edison’s wax‑cylinder dictation machine, widely used in American offices from the early 1900s through the 1950s. It competed directly with the Dictaphone system and represented Edison’s long‑running effort to commercialize the phonograph for business dictation rather than entertainment.

Used wax cylinders to record speech for later transcription.

Designed for office dictation, allowing executives to record letters and memos for stenographers to type later.

First versions date to the late 1880s, but the name Ediphone became standard around 1910.

These were actually still around to about the 1950's---and can occasionally be found on EBAY.

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