单词 | phototelegram |
释义 | phototelegramn. Telecommunications. Now rare. A telegraphic transmission including images. Cf. phototelegraphy n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > communication of visual images > [noun] > image or copy obtained by phototelegram1871 telephotograph1880 telephotogram1900 radiophotograph1922 wirephoto1923 photo-radiogram1924 wire photograph1925 radiophoto1926 photogram1928 fax1980 fax-back1988 1871 H. J. Horn Strange Visitors 173 Our method of printing newspapers differs materially from that in vogue on earth. Our papers might be termed photo-telegrams. 1929 Telegraph & Telephone Jrnl. 16 3/2 Photo-telegrams will have to be charged by space measurement instead of the number of words. 1948 Post Office Guide 283 A reply voucher issued with a phototelegram may be used to prepay an ordinary telegram. 1968 Guardian 10 Apr. 8/3 To quote the bleak prose of Her Majesty's Post Office, ‘Telex—no service. Phototelegrams—no service. Telephone—no service.’ 1997 Armenian Reporter (Nexis) 4 Jan. 6 The transmission of the first phototelegram from Moscow to Leningrad on July 30, 1930 was a crowning success. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1871 |
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