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
The graphophone system of dictating and reproducing is largely made use of in place of shorthand where the business is large, and is found to greatly facilitate the handling of correspondence.
From How Department Stores Are Carried On by W. B. Phillips
Then he burst out suddenly: "Ye know the graphophone an' the kodak and the biograph an' all them things what ye can see down to Keene?"
From The Panchronicon by Harold Steele MacKaye
Here we lodged all night, enjoying a graphophone entertainment in the evening.
From A Woman who went to Alaska by May Kellogg Sullivan
"Only as I have heard it through the graphophone, in the cabaret below the steamboat landing."
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
