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

"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

Then came the telephone, phonograph, graphophone and gramophone.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry

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

His explanations of the presence of the graphophone in this inner office were feeble and contradictory.

From Three Thousand Dollars by Green, Anna Katharine