All This Is That: Voicemail, circa 1950

Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Voicemail, circa 1950

By Jack Brummet, Past Futures Ed.

An early voice mail machine from Mechanix Illustrated. The peeks at the tech are fascinating...

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1 comment:

Steve said...: Further funniness about this gizmo.

http://www.lionelwalsh.com/chapter10somerville.html

Thanks for posting this...

Steve; 1/08/2014

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