graphophone

An improvement on the phonograph, using a floating stylus to cut grooves into a wax-coated cardboard cylinder.

Noun

  1. An improvement on the phonograph, using a floating stylus to cut grooves into a wax-coated cardboard cylinder.
    • And then I see that the grip she was carrying was one of them little graphophones. - 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 177:
  2. An optical device for showing (or photographing) an image when projected upon the atmosphere as a screen.

Origin

From graph + -o- + -phone.

Forms

graphophones