teleprinter
English edit
Etymology edit
From tele- (“far, distant, telegraph”) + printer.
Noun edit
teleprinter (plural teleprinters)
- (historical) Synonym of teletype, a telegraph that automatically prints transmitted messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols.
- 1951 August, “Notes and News: New Train Arrival Bureau at Euston”, in Railway Magazine, page 567:
- Particulars of trains are advised from Willesden Telegraph Office by teleprinter, supplemented as necessary by telephone from Euston Arrival Box.
- 2019, Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler et al., Stalingrad, page 120:
- No matter where they were billeted, the staff officers' reality was unchanging: a dozen telephone numbers, some signals corps pilots and motorcyclists, a signals officer, a teleprinter, a message despatch point, a radio and—laid out on the table—a map of the war, densely covered with blue and red pencil marks.