phonograph
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Visitors also encountered the phonograph and early mechanical fastening devices that foreshadowed later developments in clothing closures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
An animated trailer appears to draw on the story of Korean students whose singing of the song US anthropologist Alice Fletcher recorded on a cylinder phonograph in Washington in 1896.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
These funds were used to purchase local books, periodicals, phonograph records, and "other media" in multiple Indian languages, enriching collections at over two dozen universities.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2024
Ms. Stoneman made her mark in 1957 with her driving instrumental version of “Lonesome Road Blues,” which made her the first woman to play modern bluegrass banjo on a phonograph record.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
“My mother played opera on the phonograph for me,” Vivian replied.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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That same year, Jones sought a preliminary injunction from a New York federal court to prevent 20th Century Fox and another record company from selling phonographs of the “I Have a Dream” speech.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Pressing his teeth into the wood of phonographs and pianos helped Edison experience the vibrations in his skull.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
Money talks but backward, like those ancient phonographs alleged to howl if played in reverse.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2022
In experiments with phonographs, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy prefigured musique concrète and the work of John Cage.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2019
Here everything was colors to me: the red clang of the streetcars, blue music from phonographs, silver laughter of people.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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