telephotograph
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of telephotograph
First recorded in 1880–85; tele- 1 + photograph
Example Sentences
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The New Yorker, seldom serious, sent the following telephotograph: "Every sermon, lecture or argument for Prohibition indirectly assists the bootlegger."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
They passed resolutions on coordination of finger prints and demonstrated the telephotograph.
From Time Magazine Archive
That telephotograph apparatus, I remembered, depended on the ability of the element selenium to vary the strength of an electric current passing through it in proportion to the brightness with which the selenium is illuminated.
From The Social Gangster by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
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