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UK
/fˈɒnəɡɹˌæf/
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[ US /ˈfoʊnəˌɡɹæf/ ]
[ US /ˈfoʊnəˌɡɹæf/ ]
NOUN
- machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically
How To Use phonograph In A Sentence
- Like that of a phonograph record, the device's needle reads the bumps on the subject's surface, rising as it hits the peaks and dipping as it traces the valleys.
- To make their texts, ethnographers, the writers of culture, used the tools of [conventional] literacy and image making: paper, pens, pencils, paints, cameras, and phonographs.
- Also today in 1877, Thomas Edison announced the invention of the phonograph following successful experiments recording sound waves on a tinfoil cylinder.
- The song was available on phonograph records within less than a year of the wreck and remains one of the better of the railroad disaster genre.
- West and I lolled in big leather chairs while Mr. Pike ran the phonograph. CHAPTER X
- A phonographic record attached to the probe contains images, natural sounds and music from Earth.
- Before the invention of the gramophone and flat-disc records in the late 1890s music and songs were recorded on wax cylinders and played on machines called phonographs, invented by Thomas Edison.
- Americans had sewing machines, phonographs, skyscrapers, and even electric lights, yet most people labored in the shadow of poverty.
- He rang for some tea and they drank it together while the phonograph played, I want to be back in Dixie, and He's a ragpicker. THE GOLDEN LION
- The Pace Phonograph Corporation's initial capital stock was $30,000.