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User keywords, or 'tags', are words added to object records by other users to enhance their discovery. You can add keywords that may be useful in helping others find this object.

We are experimenting with tagging because sometimes museums describe objects in language that is highly specialist and user added keywords are useful in bridging the 'semantic gap' between the language of the museum and that of the user.

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+ Early Sound recording - Ediphone
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'Autogenerated tags' are a new feature that we are testing. These tags are generated by passing the object record through the OpenCalais service from Reuters. This service makes a 'best guess' at the names, places, companies and specialist terminolgy that is in the text of the object records.

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B1999 Dictating machine, Ediphone, Thomas A. Edison Inc., Orange, N.J., USA, 1926
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Object statement
Dictating machine, Ediphone, Thomas A. Edison Inc., Orange, N.J., USA, 1926

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Description
Dictating machine, Ediphone, recording head numbered A 69863 with simple on-off (unmarked) lever; incomplete metal mouthpiece, electrically operated by Konowatt Motor, 65 volts from 240 volt mains lead, transfer on case. Medal of Award, Sesquicentennial International Exposition Philadelphia 1776-1926, Thomas A. Edison Inc., Orange, N.J., USA, 1926 (SB).
Made: Thomas A Edison Inc; Orange, New Jersey, USA; 1926
The Registration Number of an object is a unique identifying number applied by the museum at the point of acquisition. Current numbering format comprises the year of acquisition, followed by a sequential number. For example, '2007/45' is the Registration Number that represents the 45th acquisition in the year 2007. Registration number
B1999
Production date
1926
Height
295 mm
Width
335 mm
Depth
300 mm

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Acquisition credit line
Gift of Bertram & Sons, 1973

This object record is currently incomplete. The information available may date back as far as 125 years. Other information may exist in a non-digital form. The Museum continues to update and add new research to collection records.
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