Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for recording and reproducing sounds, based on the principle of the phonograph invented by Edison, but of a different mechanical construction. More fully called
phonograph-graphophone .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of photograph.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An improvement on the
phonograph , using a floatingstylus to cutgrooves into awax -coatedcardboard cylinder .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Wax is also employed in the 'graphophone' of Mr. Tainter and Professor Bell, which is merely a phonograph under another name.
Heroes of the Telegraph John Munro 1889
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Instead it was another sound recording machine designed by Alexander Graham Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter, called the 'graphophone', which established a popular standard for the sound recording industry.
Museum Blogs 2010
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Instead it was another sound recording machine designed by Alexander Graham Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter, called the 'graphophone', which established a popular standard for the sound recording industry.
Museum Blogs 2010
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"Cheer up, ladies," smiled Bill, "the graphophone is a very good one, and in the office is a whole box of records of my own selection.
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Alternatively, using aluminum paint, or a combination of the black and aluminum, would create something really stellar, especially for the MacHeads among us. graphophone
Build A Sturdy Cardboard Laptop Stand | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Chiefly we noted two young men with a graphophone on wheels which, being pushed about, wheezed out the latest songs to the acceptance of large crowds.
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The sound of the graphophone mingled with the voices of many girls humming the air, and a faint glow was born and spread over him:
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“Shut off the damn graphophone,” Amory cried, rather red in the face.
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The sergeant-major fastened on to a gramophone; and that caused me for the first time to remember my Columbia graphophone that I had loaned to C
Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
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Here we lodged all night, enjoying a graphophone entertainment in the evening.
A Woman who went to Alaska May Kellogg Sullivan
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