English Etymology From telegraph + -o- + -scope. Noun telegraphoscope (plural telegraphoscopes) (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.Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.