Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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GRAPHOPHONE. The name given by Alexander Graham Bell (see Bel) to an instrument which he invented in 1880 to reproduce sounds by the movement of a needle on a wax cylinder, and which developed by later improvements into the gramophone.
[The word was probably suggested by Edison's invention in 1876 of the phonograph.]
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