| 单词 | talking phonograph |
| 释义 | > as lemmastalking phonograph a. An instrument for automatically recording and reproducing sound, in which sound waves cause vibrations in a thin metal diaphragm having a steel point attached to it which makes a tracing (as in the phonautograph) on a sheet of soft metal or hard wax fixed around a revolving cylinder, the sound being reproduced by placing the steel point at the start of the tracing and revolving the cylinder, causing the steel point and hence the diaphragm to vibrate (now historical). Formerly more fully †talking phonograph. Now frequently more widely (North American): any instrument for playing gramophone records; a gramophone, a record player.Invented by Thomas A. Edison in 1877. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] talking machine1844 recorder1867 phonograph1877 dictating machine1878 melograph1879 melodiographa1884 graphophone1886 photographophone1901 auxetophone1904 Dictaphone1906 telediphone1931 transcriber1931 wire recorder1934 sound truck1936 high fidelity1938 Soundscriber1946 player1948 rig1950 transcriptor1957 unit1966 sequencer1975 boom box1981 ghetto blaster1983 beat-box1985 society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > record-playing equipment phonograph1877 gramophone1887 Victrola1905 record player1913 box1916 radio phonograph1922 phono1925 Panatrope1926 radio-gramophone1927 radiogram1929 hi-fi1938 player1948 music centre1956 lo-fi1957 stereogram1958 gram1959 mid-fi1960 stereo1964 unit audio1966 wind-up1975 1877 J. Fiske Let. 28 Aug. (1940) 367 It seems that the phonograph invented by Thos. A. Edison gave its first recital for him on August 12th!! 1878 Examiner 2 Mar. 283/1 The Phonograph is now in England; all doubts as to the reality of the invention are at an end. The instrument has spoken in our hearing. 1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 306 The talking phonograph is a natural outcome of the telephone. 1913 B. Clements-Henry Gramophones & Phonographs 5 The disc machine is known as the ‘gramophone’, and the cylinder machine as the ‘phonograph’. 1929 E. Wilson I thought of Daisy i. 15 Somebody turned on the phonograph which began jigging a popular fox-trot. 1946 Fortune Oct. 158/2 Home phonographs rarely compare in precision with professional studio equipment. 1975 New Yorker 29 Sept. 64/2 Mrs. Santana turned off the TV, turned on the phonograph to its top volume, and went into the kitchen. 1994 Daily Tel. 1 Nov. 6/4 The museum..has a room devoted to the history of audio-visual entertainment and includes music boxes, phonographs, early television sets and crystal radios. talking phonograph talking phonograph n. see phonograph n. 4a. < as lemmas |
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