Dictionary entry

Gramophone

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Gram″o‐phone (?), n. [Gr. � a thing drawn or written (fr. � write) + -phone, as in telephone.] An instrument for recording, preserving, and reproducing sounds, the record being a tracing of a phonautograph etched in some solid material. Reproduction is accomplished by means of a system attached to an elastic diaphragm.