Definition of Phonagraph
Phonograph, an instrument invented by Edison ( q. v.) in
1877 for recording and reproducing articulate sounds of the voice in
speech or song, and to which the name of phonogram is given.
- Wikipedia
Pho"no*graph (?), n. [Phono- +
-graph.] 1. A character or symbol used to
represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.
2. (Physics) An instrument for the
mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as
articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk
covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin,
etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate
vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute
indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the
cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration, and
reproduce the sound.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- Literally, a device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe.
- (Commonwealth) A device that reproduces sound from cylinder records.
- (U.S.) A turntable, especially an early, archaic record player.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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