graphophone
Example Sentences
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But five- and six-piece dance bands were turning out huge piles of graphophone records, and we tried to buy them all.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Patented his invention of the telephone, 1876; and has also invented the photophone, induction balance, telephone probe, and graphophone.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
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 Battery before I went home wounded from Zillebeke.
From Pushed and the Return Push by Nichols, George Herbert Fosdike
His explanations of the presence of the graphophone in this inner office were feeble and contradictory.
From Three Thousand Dollars by Green, Anna Katharine
The graphophone system of dictating and reproducing is largely made use of in place of shorthand where the business is large, and is found to greatly facilitate the handling of correspondence.
From How Department Stores Are Carried On by Phillips, W. B.
