单词 | telegraphone |
释义 | telegraphonen. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1878 W. Tegg Posts & Telegraphs 297 Professor Dolbear claims the independent invention of a magneto-electric Telegraphone. 2. A device which records sounds received by telephone, so that they may be subsequently replayed or reproduced; spec. †(a) one which records sounds on to a cylinder; = telegraphophone n. (obsolete); (b) one which records sounds magnetically on to a metal ribbon.See also telephonograph n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of > other than Bell type telephone1864 telephonograph1879 telegraphone1889 magneto-phonograph1902 1889 Sci. Amer. 21 Sept. 188/2 Telegraphone, M. Wheless. 1890 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 432/1 An instrument called the telegraphone has been patented, which enables the sender to record his message on a cylinder attached to the receiving instrument, in the absence of any one to hear it, and even to repeat the message back to himself for correction. 1900 Electr. Rev. 27 Apr. 687/2 The sounds from a transmitter being telephoned to the telegraphone, then fixed in invisible writing..magnetically by means of an electro-magnet, the moving basis being made of steel or nickel instead of wax. 1900 Engin. Mag. Aug. 757/1 The telegraphon, or magneto-telephonograph, an invention of the Danish engineer, Valdemar Poulsen, makes use of the fact of permanent magnetism to record..sounds..so that they can be reproduced whenever..desired. 1914 A. B. Reeve Dream Doctor xiii. 201 This is the latest improved telegraphone, a little electromagnetic wizard in a box, which we detectives are now using to take down and ‘can’ telephone conversations. 1928 N.Y. Times 7 Jan. 3/5 Interesting experiments with the telegraphone, a diminutive instrument for reproducing the human voice, in commercial use for several years, are being carried on by..[the] head of the Harvard Department of Public Speaking. 2014 R. M. Keating Wheel Man 335 They would use the Telegraphones a few years later to record coded messages, which were then transmitted to the Fatherland from Long Island. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1878 |
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