Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name given by Elisha Gray to his form of writing- or copying-telegraph.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A facsimile telegraph for reproducing writing, pictures, maps, etc. In the transmitter the motions of the pencil are communicated by levers to two rotary shafts, by which variations in current are produced in two separate circuits. In the receiver these variations are utilized by electromagnetic devices and levers to move a pen as the pencil moves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
analogue precursor to thefax machine , transmittingelectrical impulses recorded bypotentiometers toservomechanisms attached to apen at the receiving station, thus reproducing adrawing orsignature made by the sender.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Oddly, the first method she tried was the telautograph, which was sort of a bad, early-1900s version of a fax machine.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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Oddly, the first method she tried was the telautograph, which was sort of a bad, early-1900s version of a fax machine.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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Oddly, the first method she tried was the telautograph, which was sort of a bad, early-1900s version of a fax machine.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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Oddly, the first method she tried was the telautograph, which was sort of a bad, early-1900s version of a fax machine.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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He can add marginal notes and comments, taking advantage of one possible type of dry photography, and it could even be arranged so that he can do this by a stylus scheme, such as is now employed in the telautograph seen in railroad waiting rooms, just as though he had the physical page before him.
As We May Think 1969
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It is an essential part of the mechanism of the telautograph, and the movement is known among mechanicians as
Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele
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This is, as nearly as it may be described without the use of technical mechanical terms, the principle of the telautograph.
Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele
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In the telautograph the varying currents are caused not by the diaphragm influenced by the voice, but _by a pencil moved by the hand_.
Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele
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The lady need not suffer long from inquietude concerning her husband's safe arrival; for the receiving instrument of her telautograph reproduces instantaneously his own handwriting.
By Water to the Columbian Exposition Johanna S. Wisthaler
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Professor Elisha Gray's sensational invention -- the telautograph -- in active operation, attracted many spectators.
By Water to the Columbian Exposition Johanna S. Wisthaler
ruzuzu commented on the word telautograph
"A Telautograph was used in 1911 to warn workers on the 10th floor about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that had broken out two floors below."
--Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telautograph&oldid=498425452)
August 28, 2012