phonograph

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In matters of business and diplomacy the phonogram will teach its users to be brief, accurate, and honest in their speech; for the phonograph is a mechanical memory more faithful than the living one.

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  1. noun A machine that reproduces sound by means of a stylus in contact with a grooved rotating disk.

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  • As a matter of fact, the invention of the phonograph was the result of pure reason. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • Writing in 1878 in the North American-Review, Mr. Edison thus summed up his own ideas as to the future applications of the new invention Among the many uses to which the phonograph will be applied are the following 1. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • In 1887 his time was comparatively free, and the phonograph was then taken up with renewed energy, and the effort made to overcome its mechanical defects and to furnish a commercial instrument, so that its early promise might be realized. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • Another difficulty encountered in the commercial development of the phonograph was the adjustment of the recording stylus so as to enter the wax-like surface to a very slight depth, and of the reproducer so as to engage exactly the record when formed. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • Years before the phonograph was successfully used in the 1908 presidential campaign, politicians had jumped on the recording device's bandwagon. —  Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews
 

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  1. = French phonographe, from Greek φωνή, sound, voice, + γράφειν, write.
  2. from phonograph, n.
 

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/ˈfoʊnəgræf/
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