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. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret meets a Milord]
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 with the perfected wireless telephone and the telephotograph. From Wordnik.com. [The World Set Free] Reference
The telephotograph of the carter’s finger-prints ought to have reached the Préfecture nearly two hours before. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret meets a Milord]
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