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▪ I. telephotograph, n.1|tɛlɪˈfəʊtəgrɑːf, -æ-|
[f. as telephote n. b, c + -graph.]
A picture or image electrically reproduced at a distance, a telectrograph; also, an apparatus for doing this. So telephotographic |ˌtɛlɪfəʊtəʊˈgræfɪk| a.1, applied to an apparatus (telephotographic instrument) for producing photographs at a distance by means of an electric current. telephotography1 |ˌtɛlɪfəʊˈtɒgrəfɪ|, the reproduction of pictures or scenes at a distance by means of the electric current as in the telegraph and telephone; = telephoty, phototelegraphy.
(This application of telephotograph and its derivatives had priority of date over that of telephotograph2, by which it has been almost superseded in current use.)
1881S. Bidwell in Nature 10 Feb. 344/1 (heading) Tele⁓photography. Ibid. 345/1, I made a pair of ‘tele-photographic’ instruments... They produced a ‘tele-photograph’ of a gas-flame. Ibid. 563 Mr. Shelford Bidwell's telephotographic machine. 1881Standard 30 Dec. 5/3 Mr. Shelford Bidwell's Telephotograph has gone far to prove that..the actual handwriting of the sender of a message, as well as drawings..may be transmitted by telegraph and reproduced at the other end. 1891G. M. Minchin in Philos. Mag. Mar. 235 The second problem..is the electrical transmission of an image to any distance; in other words the construction of a telephotograph. 1895Current Hist. (Buffalo, N.Y.) V. 962 The Telephotograph. This Swedish invention will reproduce to the eye pictures transmitted from a distance.
▪ II. teleˈphotograph, n.2
[f. Gr. τῆλε (see tele-) + photograph; a back formation from telephotographic a.2 (see note), or telephotography.]
A photograph of a distant object taken with a telephotographic lens.
1900Army & Navy Jrnl. 14 July 1097 Good telephotographs have been obtained at a distance of over forty miles, and those taken beyond artillery range (ten miles) are on a sufficiently large scale to be of practical use. 1904Times, Lit. Supp. 8 Apr. 109/2 We must give the palm to the striking telephotograph, facing page 184. 1909Marriage Sculptures Chartres Cathedral Pref. 8 Those..illustrations, generally speaking, in which the detail is on the largest scale are telephotographs.
Hence teleˈphotograph v., trans. to photograph with a telephotographic lens or apparatus; ˌtelephoˈtographer, one who takes a telephotograph. So ˌtelephoˈtography2, the art or practice of taking photographs of distant objects by a camera with a telephotographic lens.
1900Westm. Gaz. 27 Jan. 4/3 Owing to haze it was impossible to *telephotograph the Boers.
1899Pall Mall G. 21 Dec. 3 The would-be *telephotographer was turned back.
1892Anthony's Photographic Bull. XXIII. 168 A great deal of discussion is going on at present on the subject of *telephotography. 1899Dallmeyer (title) Telephotography, an Elementary Treatise on the Construction and Application of the Telephotographic Lens. 1899Pall Mall G. 21 Dec. 3 It is difficult to understand why the War Office has not taken advantage of telephotography. |