Its spring-loaded hood automatically closed down
over the top works. Over twenty years
of experience with spring motor phonographs was obviously a
help creating this new product. revolution industrial design took place America
in the 1930s and this dictating machine excellent example
. was sleek and
streamlined. Only the
lever the recorder assembly was changed make easier to
reach. (See Illus 11-6) This
Voicewriter model achieved great success and was the machine
that finally brought substance Edison's ambitious claims
that there would dictating machine every American
office. About twenty years of
experience selling dictating machines was behind new
design finally introduced the 1930s.
The Voicewriter reflected new movement design that
was gaining momentum American industry.XI-19
convinced Durand that this business was secure. meet this threat, envisaged a
completely new machine that would designed for the cheapest
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possible manufacture. was
concerned with the steady increase production capacity in
the industry and predicted that the post-war market would be
highly competitive. The development path the dictating
machine the 1920s was toward smaller, cheaper, and simpler
machine. Although the format and the controls were
the same the Ediphone, they were all enclosed. portable spring-driven model was added the line
of Edison machines anticipation that the busy executive
would want dictate home the road
