Word Meanings - TELEGRAPHOSCOPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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, ralay, equilibrator, and an induction coil the sparks from which perforate a paper with tiny holes that form the image.

• INDUCTIONMOTOR
  A type of alternating-current motor comprising two wound members, one stationary, called the stator, and the other rotating, called the rotor, these two members corresponding to a certain extent to the field and armature of a direct-current motor.
• Imageless
  Having no image.
• Minute-jack
  A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house.
• Paperweight
  See under Paper, n.
• Reproduction
  The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced
• INSTRUMENTALISM
  The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n. Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these ideas a
• Reproductive
  Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction.
• NEGATIVENESSNEGATIVITY
  The quality or state of being negative.
• Minutemen
  of Minuteman
• Perforated
  of Perforate
• Reproductory
  Reproductive.
• OSCILLOGRAPH
  An apparatus for recording or indicating alternating-current wave forms or other electrical oscillations, usually consisting of a galvanometer with strong field, in which the mass of the moving part is very small and frequency of vibration very high. --
• Induction
  The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.
• Minuteman
  A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.

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