Meaning & use
phonograph
An early device that recorded and played back sound using a rotating cylinder or disc and a needle.
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The museum displayed a working phonograph from the early twentieth century.
Thomas Edison is credited with inventing the phonograph in 1877.
A note on using this word
Phonograph is the older American term for what later became known more generally as a record player.
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