Fact · Dictation
1880sdecade (late 1880s and early 1890s)
Neither Graphophones nor Edison Phonographs sold well for office use in the late 1880s or early 1890s.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“neither Graphophones nor Edison Phonographs sold well for office use in the late 1880s or early 1890s.”
Antique Dictating Machines, The Office Museum, n.d., Section on Graphophone and Edison machines in offices.
Open the original- What it measures
- The same page says a cylinder held only a few minutes of recording, and that the machines were expensive.
- What it does not show
- A museum summary of office sales. It gives no sales figures, only the judgment that sales were weak.