phonography

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The recording, part of Capitol's new import of Russian phonography, is disappointing.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had been taken by Pitman's then new phonography, and his chief occupation at that time was teaching it wherever at any school he could form a class.

From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by Stillman, William James

For words are not mere sounds, and in their orthography more is implied than in phonetics, or phonography.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

Some of the above substitutions are perhaps natural enough, in consequence of the fact of extra sounds, having no special characters for them in the alphabet, which was phonography for the Latin language only.

From Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mann, Mary E.

For example, in former times the telegraph, which causes the East and the West to communicate, was unknown but not impossible; photography and phonography were unknown but not impossible.”

From Some Answered Questions by `Abdu'l-Bahá