wirephoton.
/ˈwʌɪəˌfəʊtəʊ/, U.S. /ˈwaɪ(ə)rˌfoʊdoʊ/ Originally U.S.
The transmission of an image over a telephone line; an image transmitted in this way.
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society > communication > telecommunication > communication of visual images > [noun]
facsimile1877
telephotography1880
phototelegraphy1886
telephoty1889
picture telegraphy1896
telechirograph1903
telautography1905
radiophotography1915
telephoto1923
wirephoto1923
telefacsimile1940
telefax1941
fax1946
faxing1982
society > communication > telecommunication > communication of visual images > [noun] > image or copy obtained by
phototelegram1871
telephotograph1880
telephotogram1900
radiophotograph1922
wirephoto1923
photo-radiogram1924
wire photograph1925
radiophoto1926
photogram1928
fax1980
fax-back1988
1923 Los Angeles Times 9 July iii. 1/2 (caption) Photos of Jack Dempsey vs. Tommy Gibbons bout at Shelby, Montana... This photo received from Shelby failed to show the second, the fourth figure in wire photo, which was included in the negative.
1940 Chicago Tribune 11 May 1/3 All these pictures were sent..by radio and wirephoto.
1973 C. Sagan Cosmic Connection (1974) xv. 109 The television pictures from Mariner 9 were radioed from Mars to Earth in much the same way that a newsprint wire-photo is transmitted on Earth.
1991 Sci. Amer. Apr. 18 (caption) Kuwaiti oil terminals burns after a naval battle in this wirephoto image from the Persian Gulf.
2001 Brill's Content Apr. 46/2 The city rooms of the two papers were separated by a glassed-in no-man's-land called the wire room, where Teletypes chattered and mysterious machines spat out wire photos.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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