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

Their taste would not have been degraded to the point where it is gratified, as in the graphophone, with a complicated succession of flat and strident sounds unmusical in themselves.

From The Ifs of History by Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar

A graphophone stood revealed, one of the finest quality.

From Three Thousand Dollars by Green, Anna Katharine

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

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.