telephotograph
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of telephotograph
First recorded in 1880–85; tele- 1 + photograph
Example Sentences
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It makes no difference whether your handwriting is neat or hideous; Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., in co-operation with American Telephone & Telegraph Co., will accept your message and transmit it by telephotograph.
From Time Magazine Archive
They passed resolutions on coordination of finger prints and demonstrated the telephotograph.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fortnight before, chasing out to Hawaii in his wife's wake, he had assumed an alias, put pressmen to the trouble of identifying him by telephotograph.
From Time Magazine Archive
The New Yorker, seldom serious, sent the following telephotograph: "Every sermon, lecture or argument for Prohibition indirectly assists the bootlegger."
From Time Magazine Archive
Then suddenly, in the half-century between 1880 and 1930, it ousted the steam-engine and took over traction, it ousted every other form of household heating, abolished distance with the perfected wireless telephone and the telephotograph....
From The World Set Free by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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