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
I paused long in meditation on the scene, till aroused from my revery by the blare of a graphophone from a resort across the street.
From Fly Fishing in Wonderland by Klahowya
His explanations of the presence of the graphophone in this inner office were feeble and contradictory.
From Three Thousand Dollars by Anna Katharine Green
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
One day a graphophone agent called at the house and the family became much interested in one of his musical machines.
From Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade by Ernest A. (Ernest Albert) Bell
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