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telegraphone

telegraphone noun: an early device for recording 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 similar.

Noun

telegraphone (plural telegraphones)

  1. (historical) An early device for recording 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 similar.

Forms of telegraphone

pluraltelegraphones

Questions about telegraphone

What does telegraphone mean?
Telegraphone means an early device for recording 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 similar.
What part of speech is telegraphone?
Telegraphone is a noun.
What is the plural of telegraphone?
The plural of telegraphone is telegraphones.

Words near telegraphone in the dictionary

  1. telegraphing
  2. telegraphings
  3. telegraphist
  4. telegraphists
  5. telegraphlike
  6. telegraphone
  7. telegraphones
  8. telegraphophone
  9. telegraphophones
  10. telegraphoscope
  11. telegraphoscopes

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