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Description of the arts and crafts of tribes and peoples. -- Tech`no*graph"ic, Tech`no*graph"ic*al (#), a.

A facsimile telegraph for reproducing writing, pictures, maps, etc. In the transmitter the motions of the pencil are communicated by levers to two rotary shafts, by which variations in current are produced in two separate circuits. In the receiver these variations are utilized by electromagnetic devices and levers to m…

An instrument essentially the same as the telemetrograph.

An instrument for telegraphically transmitting and receiving handwritten messages, as photographically by a beam of light from a mirror.

An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action.

An East Indian tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans), whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes.

One who sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a telegraphist.

Of or pertaining to the telegraph; made or communicated by a telegraph; as, telegraphic signals; telegraphic art; telegraphic intelligence.

Telegraphic. -- Tel`e*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher.

An instrument for recording and reproducing sound by local magnetization of a steel wire, disk, or ribbon, moved against the pole of a magnet connected electrically with a telephone receiver, or the like.

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…

The science or art of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as, submarine telegraphy.

s recording conditions at many distant stations at a central office. -- Tel`e*me`te*or*o*graph"ic (#), a.

r drawing and measuring distant objects. -- Tel`e*me*trog"ra*phy (#), n. -- Tel`e*met`ro*graph"ic (#), a.

A photograph, image, or impression, reproduced by or taken with a telephotographic apparatus.

Designating, or pertaining to, the process of telephotography.

The photography of distant objects in more enlarged form than is possible by the ordinary means, usually by a camera provided with a telephoto lens or mounted in place of the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or a magnified image falls on the sensitive plate.

An instrument for telegraphically reproducing a photograph. -- Tel`e*ste`re*og"ra*phy (#), n.

A record of fluctuations of temperature made automatically at a distant station.