Or maybe, just maybe, it's a wire recorder, first invented in 1898 and increasingly popular and more miniaturized until the 1950s. Used for dictation. Look it up.
I don't suppose it could be a wire recorder, which was invented in the late 1800s and used for dictation for more than 50 years . . . eventually becoming as small as about 2" x 4" x 7", or about the size of a bulky cell phone. But I guess a woman reporter dictating notes for the article she'd wr...
@thevoodoosailor Torgo is a monster? Now I REALLY hate this movie!