[f. TELE- + PHONOGRAPH, or f. TELEPHONE + -GRAPH.] An instrument consisting of a combination of telephone and phonograph, by which telephone messages can be recorded and subsequently reproduced. Also applied (in U.S.) to Poulsen’s TELEGRAPHONE.
Hence Telephonographic a., pertaining to or of the nature of a telephonograph; Telephonography, the working or use of a telephonograph.
1878. G. B. Prescott, Sp. Telephone (1879), 549. The phonograph and telephone, when combined, form an instrument known as the telephonograph.
1889. Telegr. Jrnl. & Electr. Rev., 10 May, 523/2. Mr. J. Hanmer, the originator of the recent telephonographic experiments between New York and Philadelphia. Ibid. (1889), 17 May, 558/2. After the recent improvements made in the phonograph … the problem of telephonography has naturally cropped up.
1902. Harper’s Mag., Feb., 496. The Poulsen telephonograph in its ordinary form does not speak louder than an ordinary Bell telephone.
