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单词 photographophone
释义

photographophonen.

Brit. /ˌfəʊtə(ʊ)ˈɡrafəfəʊn/, U.S. /ˌfoʊdəˈɡræfəˌfoʊn/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; perhaps modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: photograph n., -o- connective, -phone comb. form.
Etymology: < photograph n. + -o- connective + -phone comb. form, perhaps after German Photographophon ( E. Ruhmer Das Selen und seine Bedeutung für die Elektrotechnik..drahtlosen Telephonie(1902) iii. 47, but probably earlier: compare quot. 1901).
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.
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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).
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