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  • noun Plural form of autophone.

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Examples

  • In the electrical building we examined the telephones, autophones, phonographs, and other inventions, and he made me understand how it is possible to send a message on wires that mock space and outrun time, and, like Prometheus, to draw fire from the sky.

    The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905

  • In the electrical building we examined the telephones, autophones, phonographs, and other inventions, and he made me understand how it is possible to send a message on wires that mock space and outrun time, and, like Prometheus, to draw fire from the sky.

    The Story of My Life Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 1903

  • _autophones_, and were not vouchsafed casually to any one, but reserved for officials, the rich, and the lavish.

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894

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