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telegraphone|tɪ-, tɛˈlɛgrəfəʊn|
[Short for telegraphophone, f. tele- + graphophone, after telephone.]
A form of telephone in which the spoken message is recorded at the receiving end magnetically on an iron ribbon, so as to be capable of reproduction; invented by Poulsen of Copenhagen about 1900. (See also telephonograph.)
[1890: see below.] 1900Engineering Mag. XIX. 757/1 The telegraphon, or magneto-telephonograph, an invention of the Danish engineer, Valdemar Poulsen, makes use of the fact of permanent magnetism to record..sounds..so that they can be reproduced whenever..desired. 1902Harper's Mag. Feb. 496 This apparatus..has been variously designated as the ‘telegraphone’, the ‘microphonograph’, and the ‘magnetophonograph’ in Europe.
So telegraphophone |tɛlɪˈgræfəʊfəʊn|: see quot.
[1890Voice (N.Y.) 13 Feb., A new instrument called the telegraphone.] 1891Cent. Dict., Telegraphophone, an apparatus for reproducing at a distance the sounds which produced a graphophonic record; also, an apparatus for producing a graphophonic record at a distance by means of a telephonic circuit. |