graphophone
Americannoun
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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
One day a graphophone agent called at the house and the family became much interested in one of his musical machines.
From Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade by Bell, Ernest A. (Ernest Albert)
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
The place is buzzing with soldiers, a game of billiards is going on in one corner and in another a graphophone is never allowed one moment's rest.
From A "Y Girl in France Letters of Katherine Shortall by Shortall, Katherine
At a signal someone started the graphophone, and to the sweet strains of a march the bride appeared, leaning upon the arm of her uncle.
From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
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