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To: ~digs who started this subject	4/5/2004 8:38:57 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) of 7944

Answering Machine Inventor Dies AP 4/5/2004 MILWAUKEE, WI-April 5, 2004 — The man who invented the telephone answering machine has died at age 92. Joseph Zimmerman crafted the machine in 1948 and patented it a year later. In a 1949 interview, Zimmermann said he got the idea for the device when he owned an air conditioning and heating company and couldn't afford a secretary. The first answer machine was a box that lifted the telephone receiver from its cradle when it rang. A second box had a control panel with a 78rpm record player inside. It played a recorded greeting, then a wire recorder on top of the second box received a series of 30-second messages. Besides the answering machine, Zimmermann owned dozens of other patents. Zimmermann's funeral is today in a Milwaukee suburb.

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