phonograph

noun

pho·no·graph ˈfō-nə-ˌgraf

: an instrument for reproducing sounds by means of the vibration of a stylus or needle following a spiral groove on a revolving disc or cylinder

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Spin speed was eliminated as a variable by driving SWIFT’s spinners with synchronous AC motors locked to 3,600 rpm by their 60-hertz AC power source, just as phonograph turntables are driven. —

IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2024 With a resurgence of interest in phonograph records, and believing downtown Waukegan is a potential location for a store, Segal sold them at four pop-up shops in downtown Waukegan over the summer. —

Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2024 The film, now in post, features Egyptian star Mona Zaki as Egyptian icon Umm Kulthum who from the late 1920s onwards became the first prominent Arab singer to disseminate her work to the masses via the new technologies of the times: radio, the phonograph, cinema and television. —

Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024 In 1889, Ludwig Paul Koch, an eight-year-old boy in Frankfurt, Germany, received a present from his father: an Edison phonograph and some wax cylinders for recording sounds. —

Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for phonograph