[f. TELO-2 + TYPE.] An electric telegraph that automatically prints the messages as received; also, a telegram so printed.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade Products, Telotype, the name given to a printing electric telegraph.
1877. Knight, Dict. Mech., Telotype, a printed telegram.
1912. E. Schuster, Eugenics, 42. He [Galton] did much serious reading, and invented a device called the telotype for printing telegraphic messages.
