Odd, Obsolete Jobs That Belong in the Past

Dictaphone was a general name given to the dictation machine produced by the American company of the same name. What’s a dictation machine, you might wonder? Today we have microphones in our smartphones, allowing us to record anything we can think of, but in the past, what they used for different recording needs was a dictation machine, such as the Dictaphone.

Dictaphone Operators were hired to operate the tape recorder and mostly type the recordings to print. Like the job of the typist, this was a popular and sought-after job. However, you already know what’s coming next – with the advancement of technology, the Dictaphone was put out of use around the mid-1900s.