'Electrograph' definitions:
Definition of 'electrograph'
(from WordNet)
noun
An apparatus for the electrical transmission of pictures
noun
Electrical device used for etching by electrolytic means
Definition of 'Electrograph'
From: GCIDE
- Electrograph \E*lec"tro*graph\, n. [Electro- + -graph.]
- 1. A mark, record, or tracing, made by the action of electricity. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An apparatus, controlled by electric devices, used to trace designs for etching. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 3. An instrument for the reproduction at a distance of pictures, maps, etc., by means of electricity. [archaic] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 4. An image made by the R["o]ntgen rays; a sciagraph. [archaic] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 5. A cinematograph using the arc light. [archaic] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'electrograph'
From: GCIDE
- Cinematograph \Cin`e*mat"o*graph\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, motion + -graph.]
- 1. an older name for a movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the {movie projector} are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zoogyroscope, zoopraxiscope, etc.
- The cinematograph, invented by Edison in 1894, is the result of the introduction of the flexible film into photography in place of glass. --Encyc. Brit. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 2. A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by the instrument described above. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]