In the same caveat he describes an invention whereby the power to indent on a phonograph cylinder, instead of coming directly from the voice, is caused by power derived from the rotation or movement of the phonogram surface itself.
It then came to stand as a phonogram to express the word nefer, "good.
They were wise enough to drop the useless lumber of the phonogram and ideogram, and so they dissected out, as it were, the alphabet from the cursive Hieratic.
When a word was alphabetically written a phonogram was added to explain it, and an ideogram (or pictograph) was added to explain the phonogram.
But even the wax phonogram may be used over and over again, hundreds of times, without diminishing the fidelity of the reproduction.
I expect that an agreement may be made with the post-office authorities enabling phonogram boxes to be sent at the same rate as a letter.
The receiver of the phonogram will put it into his apparatus and the message will be given out more clearly and distinctly than the best telephone message ever sent.
Attention is not called here to the various vowel sounds, but the complete phonogram is taught at sight.
The teacher writes a phonogram on the board and below it all the consonant sounds from which words may be built.
As an amusing instance of the formation of a compound phonogram out of syllabic signs, Canon Taylor quotes from an inscription of Ptolemy XV.
In Chinese phrase the ideogram is the "mother of meaning" and the phonogram the "mother of sound.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phonogram" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
