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Gramophone
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
(an invented word, formed on an inversion of "phonogram"; q wv i, sound, yp6 ta, letter), an instrument for recording and reproducing sounds. It depends on the same general principles as the phonograph, but it differs in certain details of construction, especially in having the soundrecord cut spirally on a flat disk instead of round a cylinder.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Gramophone'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​g/gramophone.html. 1910.