Usually means: Device for viewing distant objects visually.
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  1. telegraphoscope: Merriam-Webster
  2. telegraphoscope: Wordnik
  3. telegraphoscope: Wiktionary
  4. Telegraphoscope: Dictionary.com
  5. telegraphoscope: FreeDictionary.org
  6. Telegraphoscope: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (telegraphoscope)

noun:  (historical) An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, relay, equilibrator, and an induction coil whose sparks perforate a paper with tiny holes that form the image.

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