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telephony|tɪ-, tɛˈlɛfənɪ, ˈtɛlɪfəʊnɪ|
[f. Gr. τῆλε afar, tele- + -ϕωνία -sounding, forming abstr. ns. from adjs. in -ϕωνος, -voiced, -sounding. So mod.Ger. telephonie, F. téléphonie.]
†1. Name for a system of signalling by means of musical sounds, and for the practice of other early forms of telephone. Obs.
1835Athenæum July 531 M. Sudré, whose new system of telegraphic communication, or telephony (as he calls it) we mentioned some weeks ago. 1835Mech. Mag. XXIII. 269 (heading) The Telephony, or Musical Telegraph.
2. The art or science of constructing telephones; the working of a telephone or telephones.
[1861P. Reis in Jahres-Bericht, Frankfurt. Physik. Verein Dec. (title) Ueber Telephonie durch den galvanischen Strom.] 1876A. G. Bell in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sc. 10 May (Title of Lecture) Researches in Telephony. 1876― in Boston Advertiser Oct., Telephony. Audible speech conveyed two miles by telegraph. Prof. A. Graham Bell's Discovery. 1878G. B. Prescott Sp. Telephone (1879) 53 When I commenced my researches in electric telephony. 1884St. James's Gaz. 23 Oct. 5/1 The Belgians..have just started a system of public telephony. 1885Pall Mall G. 18 Sept. 6/2 The solution of the problem of long distance telephony and along with it the much more important question of submarine telephony is said to be within sight. 1900Westm. Gaz. 20 June 10/2 Some interesting experiments in wireless telephony are being conducted by the Post Office between the..Skerries Island and Anglesey. |