D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Photographone

· Pho·tog·ra·phone · IPA
01 n. 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 soun…
  1. 1.
    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.