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Pho`tog´ra`phone

A device, consisting essentially of an electric arc and a camera, by which a series of photographs of the variations of the arc due to sound waves are obtained for reproduction by means of a selenium cell and a telephone.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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