phonograph

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

It was also one of the first songs ever recorded, and the tune with which Thomas Edison’s phonograph was introduced to the London press on Aug. 14, 1888.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 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

Ms. Stoneman made her mark in 1957 with her driving instrumental version of “Lonesome Road Blues,” which made her the first woman to play modern bluegrass banjo on a phonograph record.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

“I don’t know who broke his phonograph last time,” he said.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

That same year, Jones sought a preliminary injunction from a New York federal court to prevent 20th Century Fox and another record company from selling phonographs of the “I Have a Dream” speech.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

There were newfangled inventions: player pianos, phonographs and nickelodeons.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

Pressing his teeth into the wood of phonographs and pianos helped Edison experience the vibrations in his skull.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2022

Money talks but backward, like those ancient phonographs alleged to howl if played in reverse.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2022

But they directed their ingenuity toward technological problems appropriate to their situations: the problems of surviving without any imported items in the New Guinea jungle, rather than the problem of inventing phonographs.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond