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

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)

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

Then came the telephone, phonograph, graphophone and gramophone.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry

Great is the graphophone, advance agent of civilization!

From Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions by Poe, Clarence Hamilton