Teletypesetter

[tel-i-tahyp-set-er, tel-i-tahyp-]

Trademark.

1. a brand name for an apparatus, actuated by punched paper tape, that fits over the keyboard of a slugcasting machine, as the Linotype, for operating it automatically. TTS

Teletypesetter

/ ˌtɛlɪˈtaɪpˌsɛtə, ˈtɛlɪˌtaɪp- /

noun

1. printing a keyboard device whose output can either be punched tape, which can be used directly to operate a line-casting machine, or be transmitted by cable or wire to operate such a machine indirectly

Other Word Forms

• teletypesetting noun

Example Sentences

In 1929, Frank Gannett invested in the development of the teletypesetter.

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At 6 o'clock one morning last week, an operator sat down at a shiny new teletypesetter in the Associated Press bureau in Charlotte, N.C. and punched out a 250-word story.

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The key machine in this unique operation is the teletypesetter perforator, which looks like a glorified electric typewriter.

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Bob Boyd's week begins calmly enough on Thursday and moves like a rising pressure gauge through a welter of pictures, photostats, magazine dummies, make-up forms and teletypesetter copy to a climax around 3 a.m. on Tuesday when he gets the final "We are ready to say goodnight" from the printing plants.

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A device known as the Teletypesetter was first given a practical demonstration eight years ago.

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