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Phonautograph

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

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

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