graphophone

English

Etymology

From graph +‎ -o- +‎ -phone.

Noun

graphophone (plural graphophones)

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