graphophone

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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

To think of sending me a graphophone and a hundred records!

From The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)

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

Cheer up, ladies," smiled Bill, "the graphophone is a very good one, and in the office is a whole box of records of my own selection.

From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

Great is the graphophone, advance agent of civilization!

From Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions by Poe, Clarence Hamilton