Crossword-Solution: PHONAUTOGRAPH
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| Phonautograph | n. | An instrument by means of which a sound can be made to produce a visible trace or record of itself. It consists essentially of a resonant vessel, usually of paraboloidal form, closed at one end by a flexible membrane. A stylus attached to some point of the membrane records the movements of the latter, as it vibrates, upon a moving cylinder or plate. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “PHONAUTOGRAPH”
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| VIBRATIONS of sound (visible), apparatus for recording | 1 answer |
| an instrument for recording sound vibrations | 1 answer |
| sound vibration recorder | 1 answer |
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Sentences with PHONAUTOGRAPH (5)
Blake, an eminent Boston aurist, Professor Bell abandoned the phonautograph for the human ear, which it resembled; and, having removed the stapes bone, moistened the drum with glycerine and water, attached a stylus of hay to the nicus or anvil, and obtained a beautiful series of curves in imitation of the vocal sounds.
The instruments which might be used for recording spoken rhythms are all modifications of two well-known forms of apparatus, the phonautograph and the phonograph.
The permanent record of the gramophone (which makes a record in the plane of the surface, like the phonautograph) is carefully centered, and a lever attached to a stylus which follows the furrow of the record transcribes the curve on the kymographic drum as the plate is slowly revolved.
THE PHONAUTOGRAPH.--This instrument is used to register the vibration of wind instruments, as well as the human voice, and the particular forms of the vibrations are traced on a cylinder, the tracing stylus being attached to a thin vibrating membrane which is affected by the voice or instrument.
For some time I carried on experiments with the manometric capsule of Köenig and with the phonautograph of Léon Scott.