phonograph

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An animated trailer appears to draw on the story of Korean students whose singing of the song US anthropologist Alice Fletcher recorded on a cylinder phonograph in Washington in 1896.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, but believed its main uses would be for office work, education and recording memories, not music.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

These funds were used to purchase local books, periodicals, phonograph records, and "other media" in multiple Indian languages, enriching collections at over two dozen universities.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2024

He was worried that it would look like a phonograph needle and cement the idea that the building was designed to look like a stack of records.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2023

To a crackly old phonograph in the dining hall, we spent hours practicing fox-trots and waltzes, each of us taking turns leading and following.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela