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n. - A picture made with a long-distance lens; A picture transmitted and reproduced over a distance.

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  • Ten minutes later he was at the police station, sending a motor-cyclist to Épernay with instructions to transmit the finger-prints to Paris by the Belin telephotograph.
  • Then suddenly, in the half-century between 1880 and 1930, it ousted the steam-engine and took over traction, it ousted every other form of household heating, abolished distance...
  • The telephotograph of the carter’s finger-prints ought to have reached the Préfecture nearly two hours before.
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