单词 | teletypograph |
释义 | > as lemmasteletypograph teletypograph n. Brit. , U.S. now historical an apparatus which transmits telegraphically a message recorded on perforated tape and, on receiving such a message, produces an identical perforated tape.The apparatus was designed to be used in conjunction with a special typewriter for perforating the tapes and a machine for reading the perforated tape and setting it into type.ΚΠ 1898 Electr. Engineer 4 Feb. 160/1 A teletypograph for transmitting receiving and recording messages through a telegraph wire electrically. John Campbell, 57, Comelybank-avenue, Edinburgh. 1918 Sci. Monthly Aug. 147 Since the discovery of wireless telegraphy some sixty years ago, no fundamental improvement has been made in this branch of technics, unless it be the ‘teletypograph’. 1965 J. Moran Composition of Reading Matter vi. 66 The Teletypograph was important in that it represented an early attempt at operating from a distance. < as lemmas |
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