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
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
They passed resolutions on coordination of finger prints and demonstrated the telephotograph.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not even the news-gatherers could reach it; not even the all-seeing eye of the telephotograph emblazoned to the world its secrets.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 by Bates, Harry
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