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telewriter

British  
/ ˈtɛlɪˌraɪtə /

noun

  1. a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting by converting the manually controlled movements of a pen into signals that, after transmission, control the movements of a similar pen

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"For the first time message-rate telewriter service will be permitted over telephone lines on a local and long-range basis."

From Time Magazine Archive

She half turned, swung a telewriter forward and snapped it into her ComWeb.

From Legacy by Schmitz, James H.

But we cannot conclude this chapter without a fuller reference to that marvellous invention, the telewriter.

From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.

She slid a form into her telewriter, shifted it twice as Trigger deposited thumbprint and signature and drew it out.

From Legacy by Schmitz, James H.

So every telephone wire now is double and therefore is ready, as it were, to have the telewriter fitted to it.

From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.

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