Telegraphone

(definition) by Webster 1913 Thu Jan 19 2006 at 6:16:25

Te*leg"ra*phone (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + -graph + &?; sound.]

An instrument for recording and reproducing sound by local magnetization of a steel wire, disk, or ribbon, moved against the pole of a magnet connected electrically with a telephone receiver, or the like.

 

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