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Description: Alexander Lissiansky is the Engineer who invented the VoiceOGraph. On Dec. 31, 1940, Lissiansky, on behalf of Mutoscope, filed a US patent application to what we know as the VoiceOGraph. The manual for this first model is dated 1941, and the earliest surviving metal record is dated Feb. 1, 1941, perhaps dating the commercial introduction of the Voice-O-Graph in the US. The 1941 model included a walk-up configuration with a curtain. The microphone was a telephone handset, as it was in the Registon.
