telephoty
(ˈtɛlɪfəʊtɪ)
[f. as telephote + -y.]
The art or practice of reproducing pictures or views at a distance by means of the electric current; the theory and practice of the telephote; = telephotography1.
| 1908 Westm. Gaz. 30 Apr. 5/2 The problem of ‘seeing electrically’ really resolves itself into the problem of electrical reproduction, and many men have been more or less successful in solving it. The system of ‘telephoty’, which is gaining some attention just now, was well known amongst specialists twenty-five years or more ago, but hitherto all the men who have experimented with it have given up sooner or later. |