dictographn.

Brit.

/ˈdɪktəɡraf/,

/ˈdɪktəɡrɑːf/, U.S.

/ˈdɪktəˌɡræf/

Forms: also with capital initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dictation n., -o- connective, -graph comb. form.

Etymology: < dict- (in dictation n.) + -o- connective + -graph comb. form, after phonograph n. Perhaps compare Dictaphone n.

Now historical.

A form of telephone by means of which speech can be picked up by a sensitive microphone and reproduced by a loudspeaker in another location in the same building.The dictograph was designed to be used for remote dictation to a typist but was also used for eavesdropping.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > intercom > [noun] > intercom devices

dictating machine1878

dictograph1907

squawk box1954

entryphone1958

speak-box1962

voice box1968

1907 K. M. Turner & W. Donnan U.S. Patent 843,186 1/1 Our invention relates to what we shall term a ‘dictograph’, being a telephonic system or apparatus by which a person—for example, the manager of an office—may dictate letters to any one of his corps of stenographers without requiring them to leave their places at their own desks.

1912 Times (Weekly ed.) 23 Feb. Indianapolis advices..say that a ‘dictograph’ which was concealed in the office..enabled Government stenographers in the room below to take the daily conversations.

1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer iii. iii. 344 Spending all your life rooting into other people's affairs until you're nothing but a goddam traveling dictograph.

1945 ‘L. Padgett’ Piper's Son in Astounding Sci.-Fiction Feb. 10/2 Burkhalter put down the dictograph mouthpiece and lay looking up through the darkened eye-shells he had donned.

1974 Stanford Law Rev. 26 1430 Dictograph surreptitiously installed in cell where spouses were talking.

2002 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 4 Apr. c3 Among the car's special features in 1939 were..a dictograph for relaying instructions to the driver.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dictograph
释义	dictographn. Brit. /ˈdɪktəɡraf/, /ˈdɪktəɡrɑːf/, U.S. /ˈdɪktəˌɡræf/ Forms: also with capital initial. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dictation n., -o- connective, -graph comb. form. Etymology: < dict- (in dictation n.) + -o- connective + -graph comb. form, after phonograph n. Perhaps compare Dictaphone n. Now historical. A form of telephone by means of which speech can be picked up by a sensitive microphone and reproduced by a loudspeaker in another location in the same building.The dictograph was designed to be used for remote dictation to a typist but was also used for eavesdropping. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > intercom > [noun] > intercom devices dictating machine1878 dictograph1907 squawk box1954 entryphone1958 speak-box1962 voice box1968 1907 K. M. Turner & W. Donnan U.S. Patent 843,186 1/1 Our invention relates to what we shall term a ‘dictograph’, being a telephonic system or apparatus by which a person—for example, the manager of an office—may dictate letters to any one of his corps of stenographers without requiring them to leave their places at their own desks. 1912 Times (Weekly ed.) 23 Feb. Indianapolis advices..say that a ‘dictograph’ which was concealed in the office..enabled Government stenographers in the room below to take the daily conversations. 1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer iii. iii. 344 Spending all your life rooting into other people's affairs until you're nothing but a goddam traveling dictograph. 1945 ‘L. Padgett’ Piper's Son in Astounding Sci.-Fiction Feb. 10/2 Burkhalter put down the dictograph mouthpiece and lay looking up through the darkened eye-shells he had donned. 1974 Stanford Law Rev. 26 1430 Dictograph surreptitiously installed in cell where spouses were talking. 2002 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 4 Apr. c3 Among the car's special features in 1939 were..a dictograph for relaying instructions to the driver. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1907
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