Object Details
- Ford Industries, Inc.
- Description (Brief)
- The model 1100 Code-a-Phone was one of several telephone answering machines Ford industries produced in the early 1980s. Not everyone appreciated the new technology. Some callers, offended to be talking to a machine instead of a person, would hang up when the machine began playing the outgoing message. Sensing a market opportunity, Ford Industries began selling an inexpensive book, “How To Make Your Code-a-Phone Talk Funny,” with the goal of using humor to smooth ruffled feathers.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- from PhoneTel Communications Inc., thru Daniel Henderson
- ca 1982
- ID Number
- 2000.0101.05
- catalog number
- 2000.0101.05
- accession number
- 2000.0101
- Object Name
- telephone answering machine
- recording device
- answering machine
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11.4 cm x 21.5 cm x 27.9 cm; 4 1/2 in x 8 7/16 in x 11 in
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Magnetic Recording
- Communications
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1299447
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-d8ad-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
