noun
- machines that reproduce sound from grooved records by using a needle that follows the grooves
Usage: historical
Examples
- The antique shop displayed several vintage phonographs from the early 1900s.
- Before radios became popular, families gathered around phonographs to listen to music.
- The museum’s collection includes phonographs invented by Thomas Edison.
- Old phonographs required manual winding to operate the turntable mechanism.
- Collectors pay high prices for well-preserved phonographs and their original horns.
- The phonographs in the exhibit demonstrate how sound recording technology evolved.