单词 | telectroscope |
释义 | > as lemmastelectroscope telectroscope n. Brit. /tᵻˈlɛktrəskəʊp/ , U.S. /tᵻˈlɛktrəˌskoʊp/ now historical any of various proposed devices for producing at a distance a live image of a visual scene (as that obtained in a camera obscura) by means of telegraphy; also called telelectroscope. [ < tele- comb. form + -ectro- (in electro- comb. form) + -scope comb. form, apparently originally after French télectroscope (1877 or earlier). Compare also telectrograph n.] ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > communication of visual images > [noun] > apparatus for telectrograph1857 telelectrograph1857 telectroscope1878 telelectroscope1879 telephotograph1880 telautographa1884 telephote1896 phototelegraph1907 telewriter1907 telecopier1966 fax1983 1878 Sat. Rev. 9 Mar. 318/2 The principal articles being, on this occasion, those describing the telephone and the telectroscope. 1900 Age of Steel 5 May 16/2 While it will doubtless be some time before the telectroscope goes into general use, its adoption in connection with the telephone is surely but a question of time. 1988 C. Marvin When Old Technol. were New v. 197 Though continuously disappointing prophets who awaited its appearance..the telectroscope was described..as the most promising project yet of the country's most famous inventor. 2010 E. Burns Invasion Mind Snatchers 3 Other visionaries were doodling their own sketches for electrical sight, and were giving them such names as telectroscopes and iconoscopes. < as lemmas |
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