Note: Search of contemporary newspapers shows "recording angel" in use for a man's female secretary who takes dictation

Synopsis: Re the title, "a sort of automatic graphophone ... take[s] down certain important conversations of a trust magnate when he believed himself unheard." Features "struggle between the steel trust and the labor unions" and "conditions already existing or plainly impending". --brief review, Boston Daily Globe 1905-05-06 p4 (positive)