cylinder
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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
The compression ratio is a measurement of the cylinder displacement between the two extremes of the piston stroke.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026
Inventor Louis Glass and engineer William S. Arnold created the original coin-in-the-slot phonograph in 1889: It played one song on a metal disk or cylinder.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
Few breakfasts and refreshment breaks didn’t include someone squeezing a cylinder of icy concentrate into a pitcher, adding water and stirring until it became a drinkable delight.
From Salon • Feb. 6, 2026
Finally, when the match ends, Zero stands up with his proxy and steps away from the glass cylinder without a word.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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