squawkophone

Updated: May 4, 2025

Though such a driver for work sometimes twenty hours a day seemed too short and they often worked all of twenty-four, there was not unfrequently a jolly, prank-playing relaxation among the employees in the laboratory. If some fellow fell asleep and began snoring the others would get a record of it and play it later for the culprit or they would fix up a 'squawkophone' to outdo his racket.

S. F. (Samuel Francis) Aaron - Radio Boys Cronies : Or, Bill Brown's Radio