Valdemar Poulsen
Hail to the hero! This is the man that invented the answering machine...and apparently the floppy disk as well.
the 1904 date came from the World's Fair where the machine was first demonstrated.
A sample of my research...
…the first telephone answering machine was probably created by Danish inventor Valdemar Poulsen; he modified his Telegraphone (first patented in 1898) to answer the phone automatically and record a message. The Telegraphone was eventually advertised as "the phone with a memory."
And this!
"For in Utopia, except by previous arrangement, people do not talk together on the telephone." So that is why it was called Utopia!
From Men Like Gods, by H.G. Wells.
Published in 1923
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