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

There was an excellent musical library at Storm, and the best records to be had for the graphophone were sent to her regularly.

From Kildares of Storm by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein

Their mother had recently taken both girls to a near-by city for their first taste of grand opera, completing the effect by the purchase of a graphophone and opera records.

From Kildares of Storm by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein

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 paused long in meditation on the scene, till aroused from my revery by the blare of a graphophone from a resort across the street.

From Fly Fishing in Wonderland by Klahowya