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Laryngaphone, 1929

Laryngaphone, 1929

A man at a shipping exhibition in Olympia, London, demonstrating the ''Laryngaphone,'' a noise-excluding telephone which only transmits vibrations from the vocal chords when the microphone is placed against the throat or cheek. For the man who wants to annoy both his wife and his mistress

Photo: S. R. Gaiger/Getty Images

Sep 11, 1929
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