graphophone
nounEtymology From graph + -o- + -phone.
1
An improvement on the phonograph, using a floating stylus to cut grooves into a wax-coated cardboard cylinder.
- And then I see that the grip she was carrying was one of them little graphophones.1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 177:
2
An optical device for showing (or photographing) an image when projected upon the atmosphere as a screen.