THE DICTAPHONE

foreign desk this is Joe Allen speaking put me onto a telephone recorder go ahead Joe one of the worst fires in the city's history is still raging out of control the known casualties are 125 today but 12 dead and there may be more hey that's an exciting story Joe there's am I glad it's over I've had four hours sleep on four nights well at least you're not chained to an office Pam I wish I could switch with you you don't know when you're well off but don't get me wrong the lift that I get out of seeing my stuff and Prince still compensates for a lot of our Knowles it's a story like that printed the way you phone it in or just about natural read like man works over a bit it was a time that when you couldn't be sure that all your facts got through Straight and the excitement of a spot news story there was always a chance of a slip-up but the papers just put in telephone recording machines telephone recording that's a new wrinkle how's it working out can't miss telephone recording is insurance against mistakes even though you talk fast you know the guy at the other end has all the facts there's a record there of what you said just the way you said it in a few minutes a typist makes a transcription gives the rewrite man a clean type copy word for word when you're handling technical stuff telephone recordings are real blessing to say professor I'm looking for some more information on the paper you read before the Society of physicists last night I'd like to ask you to be more specific on the possible uses of atomic fission for industrial purposes well I'm afraid what you want is too technical to give you over the phone I'm sure of that sir but if you give it to me now it'll be recorded that this end in your exact words as fast as you care to talk oh telephone recording I see are you ready well supposing we start with the problems of Transportation simple isn't it then we know we've got it right that makes everybody happy sounds like a great thing for you fellas I should think businessmen like you would need them no Joe your business is one thing mine's another you see I wouldn't have any use for telephone recording no Mr Baker let's see about that when you get back to the office anything else for silly Mr Glenn called why you were out that's funny I thought he was on his way to Denver he said his plane was grounded in Chicago I took the message thank you well this couldn't be right is that all he had to say Newton who's Newton did Mr Glenn say where he could be reached he was in such a hurry Mr Baker and he talked so fast and I just come back for lunch myself I was all out of breath all right all right but you should have been able to see that this was important as silly didn't you get the firm name well it it's something like acne no that wasn't it but Mr Baker I thought you'd know all right Michelle I'll call you in a few minutes thank you too bad Mr Baker that you and everyone else have sufficient executive Rank and experience were out too bad you can't reach Glenn for a few days R.C Newton of the Ajax Corporation is waiting to hear if you can supply 300 of your model 42x at the right price which you can do but when they don't hear from you they'll go ahead with something else too bad that incomplete message you received is going to cost you fifteen hundred dollars Mr Ward if Ward Jones is on the phone thank you hello Mr Warren yes but uh that's an awfully short time Mr Warren uh we'll have to get busy immediately yeah uh 30 oh uh 13 I see a 13 here uh the West Coast units without coverage um 13 with and 11 without five now uh would you give me those dates Mr Ward please um Chicago by the 14th St Louis St Louis oh but that will require an extra operation Mr Ward well certainly we can do it but all right Mr Warren yeah thank you very much come in the city please remember to Brown Mr Ward Jones has given us a rushed job he wants uh uh five dozen of the new models one dozen each to his uh Chicago office St Louis fan uh excuse me hello oh hello Jim Yes mine yeah but Brown told me you agreed to that change if we uh by only half of that way I can't understand that Kim I'm sorry but uh we'll straighten it out right away I hope uh now why was I I'm a city uh St Louis um San Francisco this last lot must have 11 with covers 13 without oh no I'm sorry Mr Celie it's just the other way around 13 with are you sure Mr Baker and those dates are you sure this is the information Brown will have to act on you know I promise silly say Bob there's Brown now wait in the city would you read that memo to Mr Brown please hello oh hello Roger well I just lost Jones well no not right now I can't yeah well I know I should read them but as soon as I uh San Francisco gets 13 with covers and the levels about uh just the other way around the city yeah about half an hour all right I'll be there come on I think we can make this but doesn't Ward specify the color color like green uh green for all except the St Louis slot uh no they're green too he wanted some blue I'll have to call him back get me ward of Warren Jones hey Bob the Jim Summers just called how come that only half of his work yes well I've seen a minute well uh have him call me back as soon as he uh as soon as he comes in yeah uh Baker no no Ed Baker Mr Ed Baker yes thank you telephone recording wouldn't be any use in your business Mr Baker wouldn't it be a lot easier it would give your telephone a memory you'd save time and embarrassment you could concentrate on the gist of your conversations and still be sure of getting all the facts and figures right suppose everything Mr Glenn said Mr Summers and Mr Ward and everything that you said to them had been recorded hello Mr Ward Baker yeah how are you say I've got an urgent order for you we want eight dozen of your new model first thing next week that's an awful short time Mr Ward uh we'll have to get busy immediately that's right and they've got to go to several of our offices yes if these important conversations had been recorded you'd have them right there on your desk ready to be played back word for word and transcribed by now there'd be accurate type copies in the hands of everyone concerned for their information isn't this easier faster surer isn't telephone recording more business-like hello doc how are you fine hey you're a hard one to catch for a game of golf my first afternoon off in six weeks as soon as Joe and Charlie get here we'll go over the club uh have one no thanks excuse me for a second before I finished dictating this letter oh looking for my secretary there she is well what do you know pretty isn't she you bet in a second I I don't think the thing is important enough to make it an issue but the next time you're in town I wish you'd give me a ring and we'll talk it over then very truly yours Ed Baker first time I've seen one of these I don't want to do just sit there and talk yes doc this is it because little Mike here catches it all and plays it back too of your age starting to collect gadgets that you may be an advanced thinker in medicine but your idea of a gas its way off the beam I ordered one for the office first just with the idea of making it standard procedure to record all important telephone conversations but it does a lot of other things too like what no kidding it's amazing the time these machines can save and how they can help you to get things done we couldn't get along without them now my office like everybody else's I guess is perpetually swamped in paperwork my secretary is always up to her neck in it there just didn't seem to be any way of avoiding pulling her away from her work constantly to come in for dictation now I just press a button talk my work away it said and done the Siri keeps right on with what she's doing also if she's out in her office she can stall off a lot of phone calls that would keep interrupting if she were in mine the only time my phone rings is when it should a lot of my calls are long distance and lately we've been doing a lot of foreign business on those calls I figure telephone recording can mean a real saving then to my Spanish is strictly high school and other foreign languages stop me completely most of the people we do business with abroad speak English but they can't help lapsing into their own language now and then now I just have those parts translated later aren't you carrying this little too far bringing one home it's far from a personal extravagance doctor I do a lot of weekend work from time to time it used to mean spoiling the weekends for my secretary missivi and the extra money wasn't worth it to her so I brought Betsy in as a permanent Home Secretary another thing he's a perfect thought trap for those ideas that pop into your head at home and are forgotten in the morning here they come now back well if you can tear yourself away from your thought traps I have some folding money that says Charlie and I can take you and Joe even with your crooked handicaps and you can record that too excuse me hello yeah I am not Dr White yes he's right here doctor your office I avoid yes Miss Thompson I'm sorry doctor but there's no help for it that young Dr Bond just called long distance from the clinic he's almost sure he has one of those cases you're particularly interested in can I call him back you won't be able to relax he's gonna call back here in an hour and a half all he really wanted was give you the case history have you go over it tonight and he'd call in the morning did he give the particulars to you he tried to doctor but I'm afraid it was too much for me all right Miss Thompson when Dr Bond calls have the call switched out here well that's that there's a wrestle up a fourth around the locker room I had to sit on this phone no matter with your nurse why can't she take the call if it's something quick they can always send somebody out from the clubhouse to get you no it's too involved for her it's a young ducks at the clinic has a particularly interesting case wants me to check his diagnosis I know he wouldn't call me unless it was important is it absolutely necessary you talk to this doctor Bond yourself that's the only way I could be sure of exactly what he says in other words he doesn't need an answer from you right away that's right and let's go play golf everybody in the house knows how to work Betsy here it's almost Thompson about it and when she switches the call over your Dr Bond can talk to his heart's content we come back and it's all here for you in his voice and his words well speaking as a scientist and a golfer what will science think of next go on call Miss Thompson let's go say doctor what was that crack about increasing your folding money laughs four men of widely diverse interests and activities in the Business and Professional world three of them have discovered how useful telephone recording can be a Gadget Doctor suppose this weren't only a few hours of relaxation you'd manage to arrange for yourself how many hours during the day aren't you accessible to important telephone calls all the most capable Miss Thompsons in the world can only understand so much what about those notes you must make after phone calls with patients you make them every day at night after your secretary nurse has left think of the valuable time you'd save talking your case history's instructions follow-up reminders to a Dictaphone machine that's always ready spot news that breaks just ahead of press time as a newspaper man Joe Allen knows that telephone recording means time saved no errors in fact because of human fallibility on the receiving end a machine instead of a man records the story as it is called in no working from quickly scribbled notes assured accuracy Mr Baker you said your business was different but is it really in every business there are important calls information that must be remembered relayed to others acted upon important telephone messages recorded even if you or others competent to handle them are out of the office time saved by not having to call your secretary away from all the work that has already piled up time saved one of those long-distance calls when you used to keep saying what I didn't get that would you mind repeating that so much time saved that's three of them what about number four Charlie's been following the discussion about telephone recording and turning it over in his mind Charlie's a stickler for detail no one ever accused him of offering a snap judgment plain to him that the idea of recording telephone conversations is efficient but he prefers to let other people experiment with newfangled Notions while telephone recording may be a new idea to Charlie actually in the 1880s dick the phone's parent company was already producing voice recording machines for business use this was just a few short years after the invention of the first practical telephone ever since those crude but revolutionary early models Engineers of dictaphone Corporation and its parent companies have pioneered Advanced after advance in the field of sound recording for business leadership has been consistent behind the modern dictiford machines is well over half a century of cumulative experience skilled craftsmanship and Progressive engineering it's an acknowledged fact that more and more people all over the world have learned to think of dictaphone when they think of dictating and recording machines no Charlie telephone recording is not a newfangled idea the first machines for that specific purpose were developed by dictaphone Corporation in the 1920s for a large utility company's use in power dispatching in recent years the need for telephone recording has become increasingly apparent and the development of equipment for that purpose has been accelerated engineered into the present models are the latest discoveries in electronic science and they have been thoroughly field tested the new dictaphone telephone recorders are the sum of a long series of achievements in the field of voice recording for business use the field in which dictaphone Corporation has specialized and led for over half a century if Charlie were to use electronic recording for a while he'd wonder how he ever got along without it it makes the telephone an even more practical fast accurate and convenient way of handling business no more fumbling around with notes or being dependent on shorthand notes which a secretary took down while listening in for Charlie's information there are thousands of users of dictaphone telephone recording machines all over the world telephone recorders permit overseas conversations under bad static conditions and even with weak signals in virtually every industry and profession they promote speed accuracy and convenience users range from the largest corporation to the smallest professional office telephone recording provides a permanent record of all important phone conversations and makes these verbatim accounts available to Associates of one or both of the participants for information and action it simplifies the transmission and reception of highly detailed data or instructions and eliminates errors of interpretation it's a modern business tool with telephone recording there's never a doubt you can be sure as sure as Charlie's putt it's accurate and that's just what Dr White will discover there it is Doctor as you know doctor I wouldn't call you unless I was certain that this case would interest you one second please while I make sure my notes are in order what do you know about that all right doc I'll give you the case history and my diagnosis the patient is a 58 year old male who has a history of high blood pressure over a period of years six weeks ago he had a severe bout of headaches with diplopia we feel that he has a left occipital parietal lobe syndrome probably angiospasms foreign [Music]