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Word: telautograph (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aerial, another as a ground. The phenomena were produced by the activation of an electromagnet which attracted pieces of metal cleverly hidden in the performing objects. There was even a small piece of metal concealed in the bit of chalk which did the writing, directed by a telautograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ghostbusting | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Schwab, Eugene G. Grace): $7,914,046 as against $10,666,718. E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. (smokeless powder, explosives, rayon, dyestuffs, paint, varnish, alcohol, pyralin, cinema film, ammonia, nitric acid and 23% of General Motors common stock) : $30,125,125 as against $21,436,642. Telautograph Corp. (point to point handwriting device): $144,103 as against $124,302. John R. Thompson Co. (120 restaurants) : $667,656 as against $769,024. Barker Bros. Corp. (furniture, rugs): $202,410 as against $286.488. Dennison Manufacturing Co. (Dennison boxes): $330,000 as against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Profits | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...past as lectures, each at a different wavelength, are broadcasted from the professor's study to students in outlying cities within a specified radius. Examinations, however, will flourish no less hardily, for the otherwise untrammeled absentees will be made to answer questions and submit reports by the telautograph. Verily "The old orde--splut-- -- --." Even the athletes will be emancipated when wirelessly-controlled automata follow the instructions of inviable--but not abolished--coaches, Then indeed will Harvard tradition be renowned; nothing else of Harvard will survive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHEN IS A WORD? | 3/8/1922 | See Source »

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