Dictaphone
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Dictaphone was an American company founded by Alexander Graham Bell that produced dictation machines. It is now a division of Nuance Communications, based in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Blind stenographer from the Overbrook School for the Blind using a dictaphone
Dictaphone wax cylinder dictation machine
Dictaphone on display in a museum
Secret Six (Chicago)
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The Secret Six, officially known as the Crime Prevention and Punishment Committee of the Chicago Association of Commerce, was a well-funded and powerful vigilante enterprise established by the Associa
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…under the leadership of C. King Woodbridge. In March 1932, a Dictaphone was used to solve the kidnapping of Peoria, Illinois physician James Parker. The Secret Six, a powerful, wealthy vigilante organization based in Chicago, suspected Peoria attorney Joseph Persifull of involvement in the crime and placed listening…
Architectural detail from the exterior of the St. Clair Hotel, which served as the Secret Six's makeshift jail
Col. Robert Isham Randolph, 1920