teletype
noun
tele·type ˈte-lə-ˌtīp 
1
or less commonly Teletype : a printing device resembling a typewriter that is used to send and receive telephonic signals —formerly a U.S. registered trademark
called also teletypewriter
2
: a message sent by a teletype machine
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The page was torn off the teletype at that point, no doubt to be saved for future reference. 
Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2022 According to naval historian James D. Hornfischer, on that day the longest teletype missive ever delivered to the State Department chattered out of a machine in Foggy Bottom. Alex Kershaw, WSJ, 27 May 2022 His father, who didn’t go to college, cobbled together a living, first as a teletype operator on Wall Street, and later at a car-rental agency in New Jersey; his mother stayed home with Elias and his older brother. Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2022 Meg was also on the board of an organization supporting deaf children, which inspired her to give Glover’s character a deaf daughter who communicates with him using a teletype machine. Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021 Players wrote their moves on a teletype, a typewriter electronically connected to the computer, which both printed the moves on paper and sent them to the computer. Noah Wardrip-fruin, The Conversation, 29 Nov. 2021 Back then, mainframe computers were so expensive, most companies could afford only one, and employees communicated with it via clunky teletype. Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Nov. 2021 With that identification, detectives put together a teletype announcing the prosecutor’s office’s recovery of body parts. Elon Green, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2021 The Senate took an emergency five-minute recess as the UPI ticker and AP teletype in the Senate lobby kept up a drumbeat of bad news from Dallas. Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 10 Apr. 2021 See More
Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2022 According to naval historian James D. Hornfischer, on that day the longest teletype missive ever delivered to the State Department chattered out of a machine in Foggy Bottom. Alex Kershaw, WSJ, 27 May 2022 His father, who didn’t go to college, cobbled together a living, first as a teletype operator on Wall Street, and later at a car-rental agency in New Jersey; his mother stayed home with Elias and his older brother. Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2022 Meg was also on the board of an organization supporting deaf children, which inspired her to give Glover’s character a deaf daughter who communicates with him using a teletype machine. Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021 Players wrote their moves on a teletype, a typewriter electronically connected to the computer, which both printed the moves on paper and sent them to the computer. Noah Wardrip-fruin, The Conversation, 29 Nov. 2021 Back then, mainframe computers were so expensive, most companies could afford only one, and employees communicated with it via clunky teletype. Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Nov. 2021 With that identification, detectives put together a teletype announcing the prosecutor’s office’s recovery of body parts. Elon Green, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2021 The Senate took an emergency five-minute recess as the UPI ticker and AP teletype in the Senate lobby kept up a drumbeat of bad news from Dallas. Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 10 Apr. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1890, in the meaning defined at sense 1