Photographone

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Photographone \Pho*tog"ra*phone\, n. [See {Photograph};
     {-phone}.]
     A device, consisting essentially of an electric arc and a
     camera, by which a series of photographs of the variations of
     the arc due to sound waves are obtained for reproduction by
     means of a selenium cell and a telephone.


     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]