telephonograph love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A device for making a permanent record of a message received by telephone.
  • noun An apparatus devised by Valdemar Poulsen, of Copenhagen, for the recording and subsequent reproduction of musical tones or of speech transmitted through a telephone.

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Examples

  • a 'telephonograph' is, however, a thing of the future.

    Heroes of the Telegraph John Munro 1889

  • All telephones, he said, were cut off: but communication with the factories and barracks was established by means of military telephonograph apparatusÂ….

    Chapter 3. On the Eve 1922

  • One of these was the telephonograph, a combination of a telephone at a distant station with a phonograph.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

  • One of these was the telephonograph, a combination of a telephone at a distant station with a phonograph.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

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