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An improvement on the phonograph, using a floating stylus to cut grooves into a wax-coated cardboard cylinder.
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Graphophone — Graph o*phone, n. [Gr. ? to write + phone, as in telephone.] A kind of photograph. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
graphophone — [gʀafɔfɔn] n. m. ÉTYM. 1889, Année sc. et industr. 1890, p. 96; angl. graphophon, 1887; de grapho , et phon. → phone. ❖ ♦ Techn. (Vx). Phonographe à cylindre. ⇒ Gramophone … Encyclopédie Universelle
Graphophone — The graphophone was an improved version of the phonograph invented through the laboratories of Alexander Graham Bell. It took five years of research under the directorship of Charles Sumner Tainter and Chichester Bell to develop and distinguish… … Wikipedia
graphophone — graphophonic /graf euh fon ik/, adj. /graf euh fohn /, n. a phonograph for recording and reproducing sounds on wax records. [GRAPHO + PHONE] * * * … Universalium
Graphophone — Graph·o·phone … English syllables
Graphophone — ˈgrafəˌfōn trademark used for a phonograph using wax records … Useful english dictionary
Graphophone Company — Columbia Records Columbia Records Filiale de Sony Music Entertainment Fondé en 1888 … Wikipédia en Français
Columbia Graphophone Company — Columbia Records Parent company EMI Founded 1922 Status Catalogue and artist roster transferred to EMI Records, trademark and name sold to Sony Music Entertai … Wikipedia
Columbia Graphophone Company — Die Columbia Graphophone Company war eines der ersten Grammophon Unternehmen des Vereinigten Königreichs. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Frühe Geschichte 2 Columbia als EMI Unterlabel 3 Einstellung des Labels durch EMI und Übertragung der Marke … Deutsch Wikipedia
1928 International Columbia Graphophone Competition — The 1928 International Columbia Graphophone Competition was a competition part sponsored by the Columbia Record Company in honour of the centenary of the death of Franz Schubert. Its original aim was to encourage composers to produce completions… … Wikipedia
