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Issue: Aug, 1930
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Posted: 04/29/2008
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PHOTO AND MESSAGE ON PHONOGRAPH POST CARD (Aug, 1930)

PHOTO AND MESSAGE ON PHONOGRAPH POST CARD

Here is a new way to send a greeting to a friend. Phonograph records on post cards have been made before, but now a German inventor has combined the record with a real photograph. The sender has his picture taken, records his voice on top of it, and the result is a personal record ready for the mail. A long message is recorded on several post cards, each one numbered.

Related posts:

  1. PHONOGRAPH RECORDS RADIO PROGRAM (Dec, 1930)
  2. Home Movies From Phonograph Records (Jun, 1932)
  3. Machine Records Voice For Verbal Postal Messages (Jul, 1938)
  4. New Phonograph Record Plays Half Hour Music Program (Feb, 1932)
  5. Odd Jobs for Your Phonograph (Apr, 1940)
2 comments
  1. Neil Russell says: April 30, 20082:44 pm

    This has been up here way too long for someone to not make a “voice mail” reference.
    Now what fun is it for me if I have to be the one to do it??
    It’s funny that one of these postcards in someone’s hands today is pretty much as useless as a compact disk would have been to someone then.

  2. Dagoberto Mebius says: May 1, 200812:29 pm

    Your blog it’s very special. I have many Popular Mechanics – included 1929 edition.
    I’m a Hability teacher in brazilian school and like to develop toys projects for childrens.
    These blogs is amazing.
    My mail is: dagobertomebius@hotmail…
    I care oldies toys projects – Have you? Please send me.
    Thanks.
    Dagoberto Mebius

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