phonograph
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Visitors also encountered the phonograph and early mechanical fastening devices that foreshadowed later developments in clothing closures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
In his downtime he would travel by horse and buggy across Pennsylvania and neighboring states with what he called his "exhibition": a new-fangled Edison phonograph, a magic lantern slide projector and later on, movies.
From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026
These funds were used to purchase local books, periodicals, phonograph records, and "other media" in multiple Indian languages, enriching collections at over two dozen universities.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2024
Ms. Stoneman made her mark in 1957 with her driving instrumental version of “Lonesome Road Blues,” which made her the first woman to play modern bluegrass banjo on a phonograph record.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
Doc glanced at the place where the Monteverdi album was and then he remembered that the phonograph was broken.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
In the home, a rich family might have one of the new phonographs that played music stored on wax cylinders, but most families were still making their own music, using sheet music or songbooks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
Pressing his teeth into the wood of phonographs and pianos helped Edison experience the vibrations in his skull.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
In experiments with phonographs, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy prefigured musique concrète and the work of John Cage.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2019
Philadelphia banned phonographs from a city park, the New York Medical Journal reported in 1890, because they might “disseminate disease” in the form of injuries to the ear.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2018
But they directed their ingenuity toward technological problems appropriate to their situations: the problems of surviving without any imported items in the New Guinea jungle, rather than the problem of inventing phonographs.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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