n. An improvement on the phonograph, using a floating stylus to cut grooves into a wax-coated cardboard cylinder.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A kind of photograph.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. An instrument for recording and reproducing sounds, based on the principle of the phonograph invented by Edison, but of a different mechanical construction. More fully called phonograph-graphophone.
Word Usage
"Wax is also employed in the 'graphophone' of Mr. Tainter and Professor Bell, which is merely a phonograph under another name."