Word: phonographically
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...Countless years ago men began to utter disciplined sounds--to talk; long afterwards they began to fashion crude figures on stone or leather or papyrus--to write. The printing press came and added permanence to the thought of the moment. The typewriter followed--and the phonograph--and the camera. Now to photography, motion has been added. Already in the few short years of their existence they have made possible advantages that from our close viewpoint are almost incalculable. The actual scenes of the signing of the Magna Carta or of the landing of Christopher Columbus, or of the winter...
...lectures on "Music Education" this afternoon at 8 o'clock in Pilgrim Hall at 14 Beacon street under the auspices of the Women's City Club of Boston. Dr. Davison's subject will be "Music in the House", and will be illustrated by selections on the piano and phonograph...
...course, this invention and the wireless phone will revolutionize educational methods. Everyone will own a complete library in his field and will carry it about with him in a Boston bag. Strips of reading will be catalogued by number, like phonograph records, and assignments will be made by number and by the foot. The lecture-room will naturally fall into the limbo of the past as lectures, each at a different wavelength, are broadcasted from the professor's study to students in outlying cities within a specified radius. Examinations, however, will flourish no less hardily, for the otherwise untrammeled absentees...
...everybody knows how to ride. He saw the telephone when it was one of the curiosities exhibited in a dime museum along with an assortment of other freaks. He saw the automobile spring from what was considered a silly mechanical experiment to a great popular necessity. He saw the phonograph come up from a weird and uncanny curiosity to a general household necessity. He saw the moving picture force its way from a crazy notion to the greatest of all public amusements. And he has seen the wireless telegraph beat down public scorn and take its place as a general...
...receiving set. The demand for them will be met, however, as is invariably the case in such matters, and there is every reason to believe that in a few years a wireless receiver will be as common in the households of the country as is the phonograph...