graphophone
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English
Etymology
Noun
graphophone (plural graphophones)
- An improvement on the phonograph, using a floating stylus to cut grooves into a wax-coated cardboard cylinder.
- 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 177:
- And then I see that the grip she was carrying was one of them little graphophones.
- An optical device for showing (or photographing) an image when projected upon the atmosphere as a screen.