phonograph

noun

pho·no·graph ˈfō-nə-ˌgraf

: an instrument for reproducing sounds by means of the vibration of a stylus or needle following a spiral groove on a revolving disc or cylinder

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The film, now in post, features Egyptian star Mona Zaki as Egyptian icon Umm Kulthum who from the late 1920s onwards became the first prominent Arab singer to disseminate her work to the masses via the new technologies of the times: radio, the phonograph, cinema and television. —

Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024 In 1889, Ludwig Paul Koch, an eight-year-old boy in Frankfurt, Germany, received a present from his father: an Edison phonograph and some wax cylinders for recording sounds. —

Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024 Zoom in: Overseen by digital accessioning archivist Dillon Henry, the collection includes circa 19th-century wax cylinder phonographs created by Thomas Edison. —

Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 4 Sep. 2024 The telephone, phonograph, and motion pictures were all invented in the 1880s. —

Martin Wolf, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2015 See all Example Sentences for phonograph