| 单词 |
Dictograph |
| 释义 |
Dictograph|ˈdɪktəgrɑːf, -græf|
Also dictograph.
[f. dictation + -o + -graph, after phonograph.]
The proprietary name of a device used as an internal telephone without mouthpiece or earpiece, by means of which speech in one room is picked up by a sensitive microphone and reproduced through a loudspeaker elsewhere in the building. Also attrib.
1907K. M. Turner & W. Donnan U.S. Pat. 843,186 1/1 Our invention relates to what we shall term a ‘dictograph’, being a telephonic system or apparatus by which a person—for example, the manager of an office—may dictate letters to any one of his corps of stenographers without requiring them to leave their places at their own desks. 1907Times 26 June 12/4 Mr. [K. M.] Turner of New York..had the honour of exhibiting the Dictograph before the King and Queen. 1912Times (weekly ed.) 23 Feb., Indianapolis advices..say that a ‘dictograph’ which was concealed in the office soon after John McNamara's arrest enabled Government stenographers in the room below to take the daily conversations. 1921Trade Marks Jrnl. 27 Apr. 852 Dictograph. Telephone Instruments and Apparatus (all included in Class 8). Dictograph Telephones, Limited, Dictograph House..London S.E. 1. 1926Spectator 20 Mar. 520/1 Among inventions for great captains of industry, I looked with awe upon the Dictograph Telephone. 1962Punch 3 Oct. 498/2 Those status-creating Dictograph telephones. |
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