[1900–05; marconi + -gram1]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: burnout, clone, desensitize, elder statesman, throwaway-gram is a combining form occurring in loanwords from Greek, where it meant “somethingwritten,” “drawing” (epigram; diagram). On this model, -gram is used in the formation of compound words (oscillogram)