A device that allows phone callers to record their messages if the phone is not picked up. AT&T, then a monopoly on all phone service in the U.S., debuted the first answering machine in the early ...

It sounds like a fantastical past, yet at one point a separate machine needed to be attached to the phone to record messages if no one was home to answer ... The answering machine can record ...

The only talents needed to start a home based telephone ... not a prerecorded message. Many business owners are turning to forwarding their calls to a telephone answering service after normal ...