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'll invent the graphophone, the kodak, the vitascope, an' Milliken's cough syrup an' a lot of other big modern inventions.

From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele

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.

While thinking of this, I became aware of the noise of a cheap graphophone carrying a melody with its raucous voice; the sounds came from a cabaret just below the steamboat landing-place.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)

Standing before the graphophone, he offered an earnest prayer, then, with his companions, sang this song.

From Indian Story and Song from North America by Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham)