graphophone
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- graphophonic adjective
Etymology
Origin of 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
While thinking of this, I became aware of the noise of a cheap graphophone carrying a melody with its raucous voice; the sounds came from a cabaret just below the steamboat landing-place.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)
A graphophone stood revealed, one of the finest quality.
From Three Thousand Dollars by Green, Anna Katharine
I'll invent the graphophone, the kodak, the vitascope, an' Milliken's cough syrup an' a lot of other big modern inventions.
From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele
"I've got a kodak an' a graphophone an' a lot o' Milliken's cough syrup with the recipe——" "Why there!" cried Phœbe, exultantly.
From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele
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