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telegraphoscopes

telegraphoscopes is the plural of telegraphoscope.

Meaning of telegraphoscope

Noun

telegraphoscope (plural telegraphoscopes)

  1. (historical) An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, relay, equilibrator, and an induction coil whose sparks perforate a paper with tiny holes that form the image.

Questions about telegraphoscopes

What is telegraphoscopes the plural of?
Telegraphoscopes is the plural of telegraphoscope.

Words near telegraphoscopes in the dictionary

  1. telegraphone
  2. telegraphones
  3. telegraphophone
  4. telegraphophones
  5. telegraphoscope
  6. telegraphoscopes
  7. telegraphs
  8. telegraphweed
  9. telegraphy
  10. telegs.
  11. Telegu

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