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Sound Preservation and Restoration of Historical Recordings

As stated in a Dictaphone brochure, “Ahead of your time with the Dictaphone Time-Master” was their invitation to prospective buyers and in language that dates the machine:“Thousands of business executives, doctors, lawyers, government men and others whose thoughts are important rely on Time-Masters and Dictabelts as their thoughts thruway.” Dictabelt was the medium, or software, as we would call it today, for the famous Dictaphone machine, which was introduced in 1947 by the Dictaphone Corporation...

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