Sentence examples for A phonographic from inspiring English sources

Soon, Norris sold a phonographic tone arm he had been working on and evolved a specialization in audio-related devices.

A musical savant with a "phonographic" memory learns the melodies to hundreds of operas, as well as what every instrument plays and what every voice sings.

There's also a recording of the musical notation on a phonographic wax cylinder, but it's so fragile it will be destroyed by its own playback, so McIntyre has provided a digital version of the recording.

The "Official E.T. Fan Club" offered photographs, a newsletter that let readers "relive the film's unforgettable moments [and] favorite scenes", and a phonographic record with "phone home" and other sound clips.

I've always considered myself a bit of a music nerd, and as I may have mentioned before, I have what I call a phonographic memory -- meaning I can remember the words to every song I've ever heard but somehow I won't remember your name the first six times I'm reintroduced to you.

If Brooks writes like Fitzgerald, documenting tragedy beneath the glamour that both charmed and repelled her, Miller is more like a Dreiser of anecdotes, endowed as she was with a seeming total recall, a photographic and phonographic memory that vigorously and artlessly conjures an era and its conflicts through the accretion of surprising details and precise, incisive observations.

Last year, I came across a list of Thomas Mann's favorite records — "the first in a series of phonographic preferences by laymen of note in public affairs," the Saturday Review of Literature called it — and decided to revive the feature, first on my blog and then here at the Culture Desk.

By Alex Ross May 14 , 2012 Last year I came across a list of Thomas Mann's favorite records — "the first in a series of phonographic preferences by laymen of note in public affairs," the Saturday Review of Literature called it — and decided to revive the feature, first on my blog and then here at the Culture Desk.

In the 1870s, when Thomas Edison first presented the phonograph to the world, scientists began discussing a theory of auditory memory as "an album containing phonographic sheets".

Worldwide digital music sales through Internet and mobile phone downloads tripled last year, to $1.1 billion, according to a report by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, a London-based organization that represents the recording industry.

Her debut, "I Dreamed a Dream," was the most popular album around the world, with 8.3 million sales, according to a new report by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, a trade group based in London.