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auxetophone|ˈɔːksətəfəʊn|
[f. Gr. αὐξητός that may be increased + ϕωνή sound.]
A pneumatic recorder for a phonograph; also, a phonograph fitted with this recorder; an amplifying instrument. (Disused.)
1904Daily Chron. 9 June 4/6 The Hon. C. A. Parsons..has recently amused himself by devising a little valve called the auxetophone which promises..to advance the phonograph. 1907Ibid. 6 Aug. 4/7 An instrument..known as the Auxetophone, gives..vocal and instrumental selections. 1934A. Q. Carnegie in G. L. Parsons Scientific Papers of C. A. Parsons iii. 244 In its perfected form, the auxetophone gave results, thirty years ago, which in volume and quality..have only just been approached by the electric gramophone and wireless loud-speakers of the last few years. |