phonautograph

As a noun phonautograph

is one of the first phonographic recording devices, consisting of a horn or barrel focusing sound waves onto a membrane to which a hog's bristle was attached, causing the bristle to move so enabling it to inscribe a visual medium, which could transcribe sound to a visible medium but had no means to play back the sound after it was recorded.

As an adjective false is

(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.

As nouns the difference between phonograph and phonautograph

is that phonograph is literally, a device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe while phonautograph is one of the first phonographic recording devices, consisting of a horn or barrel focusing sound waves onto a membrane to which a hog's bristle was attached, causing the bristle to move so enabling it to inscribe a visual medium, which could transcribe sound to a visible medium but had no means to play back the sound after it was recorded.

As a verb phonograph

is to record for playback by phonograph.

As nouns the difference between terms and phonautograph

is that terms is while phonautograph is one of the first phonographic recording devices, consisting of a horn or barrel focusing sound waves onto a membrane to which a hog's bristle was attached, causing the bristle to move so enabling it to inscribe a visual medium, which could transcribe sound to a visible medium but had no means to play back the sound after it was recorded.

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and phonautograph

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while phonautograph is one of the first phonographic recording devices, consisting of a horn or barrel focusing sound waves onto a membrane to which a hog's bristle was attached, causing the bristle to move so enabling it to inscribe a visual medium, which could transcribe sound to a visible medium but had no means to play back the sound after it was recorded.

As nouns the difference between phonautograph and phonautogram

is that phonautograph is one of the first phonographic recording devices, consisting of a horn or barrel focusing sound waves onto a membrane to which a hog's bristle was attached, causing the bristle to move so enabling it to inscribe a visual medium, which could transcribe sound to a visible medium but had no means to play back the sound after it was recorded while phonautogram is a recording made with a phonautograph.