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Definition of Phonographs
1. phonograph [n] - See also: phonograph
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phonographs
Literary usage of Phonographs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"'Dilet- duce more phonographs? Heaven forbid ! is for moderation; for a truer
sense of by increased efficiency, be enabled to pro- tantes are beneath ..."
2. The Life and Inventions of Thomas Alva Edision by William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson, Antonia Dickson (1894)
"... in future ages such as it is difficult to ONE OF EDISON'S EARLY phonographs.
conceive will ever suffer displacement at the hands of progressive science. ..."
3. The Philosophy of Language; Or, Language as an Exact Science: Subjectively by David Henry Cruttenden (1870)
"Thus, the letters of the English alphabet, when used separately, aro phonographs.
... and phonographs. NOTE V. The North American Indians used rude pictures ..."
4. Pernin's Universal Phonography in Ten Lessons by Helen M. Pernin (1899)
"... UNIVERSAL phonographs. TRAN, TRANS, _ are represented by the t sign written
through the sign following; thus: translate, transitory, transform. ..."
5. Annual Register by Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Edmund Burke (1891)
"... excursionists at Hawarden—Professor Tyndall on Gladstonian phonographs—The
Education Code—The Channel Tunnel Bill—Instructions to Committee on the Tithe ..."
6. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"However, the defendant in his evidence saya that the. profit on each of the
phonographs was $20, $10 for the plaintiff, and $10 for himself. ..."
7. America and Her Problems by George A. Raper (1915)
"The demoralizing skyscraper. — 2. PHILADELPHIA. American independence. Franco-American
work. Newspapers, photographers and phonographs. —. ..."
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