graphophone
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- graphophonic adjective
Etymology
Origin of graphophone
Example Sentences
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Purchased by the Gramophone Company in 1929 for £16,500 and rechristened as EMI Recording Studios, the facility officially opened in November 1931—scant months after Columbia Graphophone had merged with the Gramophone Company and formed the EMI Group.
From Salon
The newspaper, which gathered recordings with the Columbia Graphophone Company, warned of hospital patients being unable to sleep and the constant sounds of "engines, bells and whistles".
From BBC
Although some say his perfection of the graphophone — an improved version of the phonograph — took place at the carriage house, Bell worked on most of his inventions, with the exception of the telephone, at the original Volta Lab, just off Connecticut Avenue.
From Washington Post
Soon after, competing companies released their own versions of the phonograph, including the Victor Talking Machine Company’s gramophone and Columbia’s graphophone.
From Washington Times
A recording from 1885, on a cardboard disc with layers of plaster and foil, declares, “I am a magnetical Graphophone” and asks, “What are you?”
From Washington Post
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