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Telautograph, the Glossary

Index Telautograph

The telautograph is an ancestor of the modern fax machine.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 22 relations: Alternating current, Chicago, Chicago Union Station, Crank (mechanism), Direct current, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Elisha Gray, Fax, Five-bar linkage, Galvanometer, Glossary of rail transport terms, Grand Central Terminal, LongPen, Pen, Potentiometer, Servomechanism, Signalling control, Sinner Take All, TIFF, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, World's Columbian Exposition, Xerox.

  2. Xerox

Alternating current

Alternating current (AC) is an electric current that periodically reverses direction and changes its magnitude continuously with time, in contrast to direct current (DC), which flows only in one direction.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicago Union Station

Chicago Union Station is an intercity and commuter rail terminal located in the West Loop neighborhood of the Near West Side of Chicago.

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Crank (mechanism)

A crank is an arm attached at a right angle to a rotating shaft by which circular motion is imparted to or received from the shaft.

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Direct current

Direct current (DC) is one-directional flow of electric charge.

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Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

Earth vs.

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Elisha Gray

Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company.

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Fax

Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (short for telefacsimile), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device. Telautograph and fax are American inventions, Office equipment and Telecommunications equipment.

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Five-bar linkage

In kinematics, a five-bar linkage is a mechanism with two degrees of freedom that is constructed from five links that are connected together in a closed chain.

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Galvanometer

A galvanometer is an electromechanical measuring instrument for electric current.

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Glossary of rail transport terms

Rail transport terms are a form of technical terminology applied to railways.

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Grand Central Terminal

Grand Central Terminal (GCT; also referred to as Grand Central Station or simply as Grand Central) is a commuter rail terminal located at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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LongPen

The LongPen is a remote signing device conceived of by writer Margaret Atwood in 2004 and debuted in 2006.

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Pen

A pen is a common writing instrument that applies ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing. Telautograph and pen are Office equipment.

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Potentiometer

A potentiometer is a three-terminal resistor with a sliding or rotating contact that forms an adjustable voltage divider.

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Servomechanism

In mechanical and control engineering, a servomechanism (also called servo system, or simply servo) is a control system for the position and its time derivatives, such as velocity, of a mechanical system.

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Signalling control

On a rail transport system, signalling control is the process by which control is exercised over train movements by way of railway signals and block systems to ensure that trains operate safely, over the correct route and to the proper timetable.

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Sinner Take All

Sinner Take All is a 1936 American murder mystery film directed by Errol Taggart and starring Bruce Cabot, Margaret Lindsay and Joseph Calleia.

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TIFF

Tag Image File Format or Tagged Image File Format, commonly known by the abbreviations TIFF or TIF, is an image file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and photographers.

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history.

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World's Columbian Exposition

The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.

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Xerox

Xerox Holdings Corporation is an American corporation that sells print and digital document products and services in more than 160 countries.

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See also

Xerox

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telautograph

Also known as Omnifax.