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Patent drawing of a cylinder phonograph showing the main frame with grooved record cylinder, a diaphragm and pivoted style assembly on a sliding carriage, a large curved amplifying horn rising above, and several detail cross-sections of the reproducer mechanism below.

PHONOGRAPH.John H. White · November 11, 1890

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