teletypewritern.
/ˌtɛlᵻˈtʌɪprʌɪtə/, U.S. /ˌtɛləˈtaɪpˌraɪdər/ Now chiefly historical.
An electrical device resembling and similar in operation to a typewriter, used for transmitting and receiving text-based messages to and from other such devices over a network or direct communication link and for printing received messages; = teleprinter n.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun] > types of > printing telegraphs
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telotype1850
printer1859
pantelegraph1860
magneto-printer1883
typo-telegraph1888
teletyper1895
telecryptograph1904
teletype1904
teletypewriter1904
Creed1911
teleprinter1911
teletypesetter1928
telex1968
1904 Knowledge Feb. 18/2 The apparatus..is..a tele-typewriter, any letters, figures, or signs of punctuation being printed by pressing down a key corresponding with the signal in question.
1922 Glasgow Herald 4 Sept. 11 Another great stride in the advance of civilization is demonstrated by the tele-typewriter.
1968 Economist 21 Dec. 32/2 With time-sharing, he can communicate with a computer by means of a special teletypewriter by his desk.
1979 J. E. Rowley Mechanised In-house Information Syst. i. 59 Other devices, such as the tele-typewriter, the visual display unit and the graphical display unit may function both in input and output.
2014 C. Nelson Age of Radiance xii. 299 They installed a hotline teletypewriter between Moscow and Washington so that it wouldn't take six hours to get a telegraph during a crisis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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