phonograph
pronunciation
How to pronounce phonograph in British English:
UK [ˈfəʊnəgrɑ:f]
How to pronounce phonograph in American English:
US [ˈfoʊnəgræf]
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- Noun:
- machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically
Word Origin
- phonograph (n.)
- 1835, "character representing a sound," literally "writer of sounds," from phono- "sound" + -graph "instrument for recording; something written." Meaning "an instrument that produces sounds from records" (talking phonograph, invented by Thomas A. Edison) it is attested from 1877. The recording made from it at first was called a phonogram (1879).
Example
- 1. The recordings attracted great interest and edison 's improved phonograph was launched .
- 2. The telephone , phonograph , motion picture and radio also sprang into existence .
- 3. The upshot was an outburst of intense competition between the phonograph and bell 's machine the graphophone .
- 4. Whatever the source of edison 's inspiration his work at menlo park bore fruit in 1877 and by early 1878 word of the phonograph 's invention was out .
- 5. To understand those differences we first need to travel back to menlo park new jersey to the world-famous workshops of a young edison who in the fall of 1877 perfected the earliest example of the phonograph .