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telectrograph
telectrograph n. 
/tᵻˈlɛktrə(ʊ)ɡraf/,
Brit. /tᵻˈlɛktrə(ʊ)ɡrɑːf/
, /tᵻˈlɛktrə(ʊ)ɡrɑːf//tᵻˈlɛktrə(ʊ)ɡraf/U.S. /tᵻˈlɛktrəˌɡræf/
†(a) (an alternative name proposed for) a telegraph (obsolete); (b) an apparatus for transmitting and reproducing photographs or other images telegraphically, in which the original image is scanned optically or electrically to produce a variable electrical signal (also called telelectrograph); spec. (the name of) such a device invented by Thomas Thorne Baker, in which an electric current is passed through an original image printed in insulating ink on a conductive metal sheet (now historical). [Blend of tele- comb. form and electrograph n. (the latter in an occasional, now obsolete, sense ‘any electric telegraph’); compare Canadian French †électrographe (apparently 1857 or earlier; compare quot. 1857).] Sense (a) apparently represents an isolated use./tᵻˈlɛktrəˌɡræf/ΘΚΠ
society > communication > telecommunication > communication of visual images > [noun] > apparatus for
telectrograph1857
telelectrograph1857
telectroscope1878
telelectroscope1879
telephotograph1880
telautographa1884
telephote1896
phototelegraph1907
telewriter1907
telecopier1966
fax1983
1857 Jrnl. Educ. Lower Canada Nov. 171/2 The ‘Journal [de Québec]’ suggests ‘electrograph’ and ‘electrogram’, which might perhaps be improved into ‘telelectrograph’ and ‘telelectrogram’, or simply ‘telectrograph’ and ‘telectrogram’.
1907 Model Engineer & Electrician 19 Dec. 599/2 Its capacities in other directions also appear to transcend those of the selenium telectrograph.
1909 Daily Mirror 7 July 4 (caption) The picture [of his Majesty] was wired from Manchester to London in six minutes by the Thorne-Baker telectrograph.
2015 J. Coopersmith Faxed i. 34 Thorne Baker used his ‘telectrograph’ in 1909 for the Daily Mirror in London, Manchester, and Paris, sending scores of photographs until the high cost of long-distance telephone circuits caused the paper to end the transmissions in 1911.
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