Historical information
Office Equipment imported from United States
Significance
The dictaphone, intact with its cylinders, has historic local importance as an item used in the old Kew Town Hall and also as a work of technological innovation from the first part of the 20th century.
Physical description
Metal Dictaphone used in the Kew Town Hall in Walpole Street.
Inscriptions & markings
Metal Label (top): "THE DICTAPHONE / REG US PATENT OFF / TRANSCRIBING MACHINE / DICTAPHONE CORPORATION / NEW YORK / MODEL B10 TYPE X / SOLE MANUFACTURERS MADE IN U.S.A"
