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

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

Patented his invention of the telephone, 1876; and has also invented the photophone, induction balance, telephone probe, and graphophone.

From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various

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 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