Perhaps inspired by his work with Edison, Enoch J. Rector invented this very simple and cheap phonograph. This machine was distributed by many small companies as the Baird-North Company and Bacigalupi. This phonograph is distinguishable through its bare simplicity, the mandrel made out of four formed sheet metal pieces and the reproducer carriage also of pressed sheet metal, having a simple single point in contact with the feed screw, that moved the reproducer and horn across the 2 minute cylinder. Horn was similarly simple, made of cardboard.
The machine is neither marked with a manufacturers name, nor a serial number. It is believed that Rector only made this 1 style.