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

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 Lawrence, Robert Means

"Only as I have heard it through the graphophone, in the cabaret below the steamboat landing."

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

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 Stevenson, Burton Egbert

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