graphophone
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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
She immediately opened the door and led him out into the hall, where Farwell and the two girls were amusing themselves with the graphophone.
From Kildares of Storm by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
A graphophone, with records of Melba, Sembrich, Caruso, and other operatic stars, made the rounds of a menagerie.
From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence
Born at Edinburgh, Scotland, March 3, 1847; came to Canada, 1870, and to Boston, 1871; invented telephone, 1876; graphophone, 1883.
From American Men of Mind by Burton Egbert Stevenson
As I drew near it, I heard the sound of the graphophone.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
