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  2. Answering machine - Wikipedia

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    A Panasonic answering machine with a dual compact cassette tape drive to record and replay messages. An answering machine, answerphone, or message machine, also known as telephone messaging machine (or TAM) in the UK and some Commonwealth countries, ansaphone or ansafone (from a trade name), or telephone answering device (TAD), is used for answering telephone calls and recording callers' messages.

  3. Joseph Zimmermann (engineer) - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Zimmermann (1912 – March 31, 2004) was an engineer, born in Kenosha, Wisconsin who invented the first answering machine, called the "Electronic Secretary". Zimmermann graduated from Marquette University in 1935 with a degree in electrical engineering. [1]

  4. Kazuo Hashimoto - Wikipedia

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    Kazuo Hashimoto (橋本 和芙, Hashimoto Kazuo, died August 1995) was a Japanese inventor who registered over 1,000 patents throughout the world, including patents for a Caller-ID system and telephone answering machines. He filed for his first telephone answering machine patent, what would become the Ansa Fone, in Japan in 1958, followed by ...

  5. The idea of having a machine answer you calls and From the least impactful to the most, here are 25 bits of vanishing America. Top 25 things vanishing from America: #14 -- The answering machine

  6. History of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    Shows Bell's second telephone transmitter , invented 1876 and first displayed at the Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia. This history of the telephone chronicles the development of the electrical telephone, and includes a brief overview of its predecessors. The first telephone patent was granted to Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.

  7. Gordon Matthews (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    Matthews has said that the inspiration for his invention came in 1970, while visiting a client's office on business. He noticed a number of trash bins overflowing with message slips used by receptionists and secretaries to inform their bosses that someone tried to call him while he was in a meeting or otherwise unable to take the call himself.

  8. Alexander Graham Bell - Wikipedia

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    The laboratory was also the site where he and his associate invented his "proudest achievement", "the photophone", the "optical telephone" which presaged fibre optical telecommunications while the Volta Bureau would later evolve into the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (the AG Bell), a leading center for the ...

  9. Thomas A. Watson - Wikipedia

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    Born in Salem, Massachusetts, [1] United States Watson was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston in 1872. [2] He was then hired by Alexander Graham Bell, who was then a professor at Boston University. They were known for the invention of the telephone.