graphophone

Example Sentences

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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

The sergeant-major fastened on to a gramophone; and that caused me for the first time to remember my Columbia graphophone that I had loaned to C Battery before I went home wounded from Zillebeke.

From Pushed and the Return Push by Nichols, George Herbert Fosdike

Patented his invention of the telephone, 1876; and has also invented the photophone, induction balance, telephone probe, and graphophone.

From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various

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)

His explanations of the presence of the graphophone in this inner office were feeble and contradictory.

From Three Thousand Dollars by Green, Anna Katharine