Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Equipped with satin-covered furniture, shower baths, phonograph, radio, cinema, telephones; loaded with clerks, valets, maids, detectives, railroad police, extra train crew and personages; guarded at bridgeheads by riflemen; awaited along the line by panting engines and peering populace, a Presidential train started for Key West...
...machine itself is decidedly unimpressive in general appearance. A wooden box scarcely the size of the smallest of radio receiving sets, contains everything save the three dry cells required for running the voice transmission machinery. Like any phonograph or mechanical flatiron the device can be wired to an ordinary electric light circuit. It resembles a typewriter when one raises the cover. For the recording wire, nearly two miles in length, is coiled upon two revolving wheels, like the more conventional typewriter ribbon spools. When the machinery is operating, the wire is carried through a tiny box, passing a magnetizing device...
Canon Fellowes sings the old music to his own lute accompaniment, and uses in his lecture phonograph illustrations from records made by the English Singers. The program of Canon Fellowes' recital has not been announced...
...food. Food for men or food for guns? Perhaps, food for men. What else? The Sheik thought some knives and a lot of other things would be very acceptable. Well, to begin again, how much money? Ah, said the Sheik, there is something more important. We must have a phonograph. That was the only thing about which Sheik Naceur was certain...
Last week, finding that he would not be able to address a convention of the American Institute of Steel Construction next week at Pinehurst, N. C., Herbert Clark Hoover sent out for a microphone and recording apparatus; read into the microphone and onto a phonograph record the speech he had prepared to read at Pinehurst. No Cabinet member or other high U. S. official ever did such a thing before...