To overcome these troubles, the very ingenious suggestion was then made and adopted, of connecting the recording and reproducing styluses to their respective diaphragms through the instrumentality of a compensating weight, which acted practically as a fixed support under the very rapid sound vibrations, but which yielded readily to distortions or variations in the wax-like cylinders.
"Edison, His Life and Inventions"
Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
The last wagers were recorded on the tablets by nervous styluses.
"A Victor of Salamis"
William Stearns Davis
They've all got styluses now.
"Undo-a-Novel-By-Joe-Hutsko"
Hutsko, Joe