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† telechirograph n. Obsolete rare a device for reproducing handwriting or images in facsimile over a telephone connection, (originally and chiefly) by translating the movements of a pencil, attached to the device by slender rods, into variable electric currents, which are then transmitted to the receiving station, where a beam of light is manipulated to expose photographic paper in the same pattern; cf. telautograph n.In quot. 1925: a similar device in which light is passed through a film onto photoelectric cells to create a variable current, and which can also transmit by means of radio waves.