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.
Dictaphone wax cylinder dictation machine
Dictaphone on display in a museum
Image: Blind stenographer from the Overbrook School for the Blind using a dictaphone
A dictation machine is a sound recording device most commonly used to record speech for playback or to be typed into print. It includes digital voice recorders and tape recorder.
Transcribing dictation with a Dictaphone wax cylinder dictation machine, in the early 1920s. Note supply of extra wax cylinders on lower part of stand.
Thomas A. Edison dictating in 1907.
Dictaphone cylinder dictation machine from early 1920s.
Edison Voicewriter from about 1950