Beside them, an unhooded Western Union Teletype bell began to ring insistently.
Frank turned toward the window where he had left the bundle of Teletype clips.
Penny could not understand why the hotel would have need for Teletype machine service.
“Room 27 is given over to our Teletype service,” interrupted Maxwell.
However, the Teletype attendant seemed to have no suspicion that anyone might be hiding there.
“Here are the Teletype machines,” Penny indicated, pausing beside them.
“And Teletype communication is maintained just as it is on a real railroad,” added Penny.
The outside world could be reached or could come to them by 'phone, radio, Teletype, and facsimile reproduction.
They watched as the Confederation report came clacking off the Teletype, and they stared at it unbelieving.
The chatter of the Teletype interrupted him, and the editor turned to watch the tape as it came from the machine.
1904, trademark for a communications system of typewriters connected electronically, short for teletypewriter (1904), a form of telegraph in which the receiver prints messages like a typewriter, from tele- + typewriter.
