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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 333 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GRAMOPHONE (an invented word, formed' on an See also:inversion of " phonogram "; cbwvil, See also:sound, ypaµµa, See also:letter)  , an See also:instrument for recording and reproducing sounds . It depends on the same See also:general principles as the See also:phonograph (q.v.), but it differs in certain details of construction, especially in having the See also:sound-See also:record cut spirally on a See also:flat disk instead of See also:round a See also:cylinder .

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