单词 | phoroscope |
释义 | phoroscopen. rare. Now historical. L. Weiller's name for: a device for transmitting a picture along a wire by means of electrical signals and reproducing it at the other end. ΚΠ 1889 Science 13 Dec. 401/2 A French electrician endeavors to solve the question of seeing at a distance by electricity, by means of..a special apparatus which he designates a ‘phoroscope’. 2002 W. Uricchio in F. Albera et al. Arrêt sur image/Stop Motion 106 By 1889, Lazare Weiller's Phoroscope proved capable of much the same task, except that in place of a spinning disk, Weiller used a revolving drum made of angled mirrors. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1889 |
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