Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A device for making a permanent record of a message received by telephone.
- noun An apparatus devised by Valdemar Poulsen, of Copenhagen, for the recording and subsequent reproduction of musical tones or of speech transmitted through a telephone.
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Examples
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a 'telephonograph' is, however, a thing of the future.
Heroes of the Telegraph John Munro 1889
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All telephones, he said, were cut off: but communication with the factories and barracks was established by means of military telephonograph apparatusÂ….
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One of these was the telephonograph, a combination of a telephone at a distant station with a phonograph.
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One of these was the telephonograph, a combination of a telephone at a distant station with a phonograph.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905
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