Meaning & use

phonograph

noun·Advanced

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.

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Phonograph is the older American term for what later became known more generally as a record player.

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