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
There was always a fair grade of tea, always sake, always a wheezy graphophone.
From Boy Scouts in the Philippines Or, The Key to the Treaty Box by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson
"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
She immediately opened the door and led him out into the hall, where Farwell and the two girls were amusing themselves with the graphophone.
From Kildares of Storm by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
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 Burton Egbert Stevenson
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