Talk:The Silent Speaker
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[edit] Dictaphone
A recent edit injects some OR into the article's introductory material ("almost certainly," for example, and "obvious avoidance"). Since I don't mind that sort of viewpoint so long as it isn't made up of whole cloth, I don't wish to edit it. But the accompanying edit summary notes that the Dictaphone wasn't new to offices in 1946 (not 1947), having been introduced in 1917. The Dictaphone.com web site, with its brief corporate history, doesn't make that at all clear. Although the initial technology was developed by Edison's people in the late 19th century, it was 1939 before the "first electronic dictation machines were introduced." 1917 is not mentioned as a watershed date. Was Boone using an electronic dictation machine? I don't know, and I don't know that a so-called Stenophone was introduced in 1917. Fish Man's point is well taken, though: whatever the correct date, it wasn't brand new technology in 1946. TurnerHodges 04:55, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
