Telautograph

British  

/ tɛlˈɔːtəˌɡræf, -ˌɡrɑːf, ˌtɛlɔːˈtɒɡrəfɪ /

noun

1. a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end

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Other Word Forms

• telautographic adjective
• telautography noun

Example Sentences

On a walking tour of this floating utopia, Verne’s quartet learns of devices such as the telautograph, which “sends the written word the same way the telephone sends the spoken word” and the telephote, “which records images.”

From Washington Post

Elisha, his telautograph, 26.Greased plate, drop of water on a, 8.Great minds, idiosyncrasies of, 247.Greek language, scientific terms derivedfrom, 342-343;common words derived from, 343, footnote;still necessary for some professions, 346;its literary wealth, 347-348;narrowness and one-sidedness of its literature, 348-349;its excessive study useless, 349-350;its study sharpens the judgment, 357-358;a knowledge of it not necessary to a liberal education, 371.Greeks, their provinciality and narrow-mindedness, 349;now only objects of historical research, 350.Griesinger,

From Project Gutenberg

Still another fragment rescued from that old kingdom of fables, of which our day has realised so much, that world of fairy-stories to which the latest contributions are Casselli's telegraph, by which one can write at a distance in one's own hand, and Prof. Elisha Gray's telautograph.

From Project Gutenberg

Telautograph, te-law′tō-graf, n. a writing or copying telegraph, invented by Elisha Gray, for reproducing writings at a distance.

From Project Gutenberg

Among his later inventions were appliances for multiplex telegraphy and the telautograph, a machine for the electric transmission of handwriting.

From Project Gutenberg