单词 | photographophone |
释义 | photographophonen. Now rare. An instrument for recording and reproducing sound cinematographically.The sound waves are made to cause a sensitive flame or electric arc to vibrate; the light from this is focused and recorded on a film which is projected on to a photoelectric cell with a loudspeaker attached in order to reproduce the sound. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] talking machine1844 recorder1867 phonograph1877 dictating machine1878 melograph1879 melodiographa1884 graphophone1886 photographophone1901 auxetophone1904 Dictaphone1906 telediphone1931 transcriber1931 wire recorder1934 sound truck1936 high fidelity1938 Soundscriber1946 player1948 rig1950 transcriptor1957 unit1966 sequencer1975 boom box1981 ghetto blaster1983 beat-box1985 1901 Westm. Gaz. 19 June 9/3 Dr. Ruhmer, of Berlin, has invented what he calls a ‘photographone,’ a new scientific marvel, with which he expects to be able to record a series of sounds of the human voice. 1908 J. Erskine-Murray tr. E. Ruhmer Wireless Teleph. i. iv. 39 The reproduction of speech by this phonograph is astonishingly clear... The instrument has been named the Photographophone. 1921 Science 21 Oct. 373/1 Speaking-films..have been in existence for a long time, having been first made by Ernst Rühmer about 1900, and called by him the ‘photographophone’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1901 |
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