The Dictascrivener

The Patterson-Armitage Dictascrivener of 1898 was an early attempt to perfect a method of effecting transfer of thought to paper without program or mediation. The gentle voltage passing through the barrel of the Dictascrivener emitted a vibratory stimulus which would allegedly trigger a discharge of dazzling revelations.

The fanciful appellations of gadgets and apparatuses, couched in the quaint and faintly foreign-sounding nomenclature of the waning Industrial Age, are as amusing as they are colorful.