Benjamin Thornton (1800s) – Voice message recorder
In 1931, Benjamin Thornton was awarded a patent for his “Apparatus for Automatically Recording Telephonic Messages,” an early version of today’s answering machine. While some sources credit Thornton with inventing the answering machine in 1935, his device was an attachment for telephones that could record messages from callers and timestamp them. It also allowed the telephone owner to record messages on the device.
FBA INVENTORS: Benjamin Thornton (1800s) – Voice message recorder
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