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

Then came the telephone, phonograph, graphophone and gramophone.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry

While thinking of this, I became aware of the noise of a cheap graphophone carrying a melody with its raucous voice; the sounds came from a cabaret just below the steamboat landing-place.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)

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)

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 MacKaye, Harold Steele