telegraphone

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telegraphone - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Telegraphone \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.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]