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
"Only as I have heard it through the graphophone, in the cabaret below the steamboat landing."
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
A graphophone stood revealed, one of the finest quality.
From Three Thousand Dollars by Anna Katharine Green
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 W. B. Phillips
Cheer up, ladies," smiled Bill, "the graphophone is a very good one, and in the office is a whole box of records of my own selection.
From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
