telescreen n.
a video screen, esp. one forming part of a communications device
Communications
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1932
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Francis Flagg
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It was on the tele-screen that I viewed the mobs coursing through the streets; via the news-dispenser I listened to the latest tidings from all over the country.
After Armageddon in Wonder Stories Sept. 343/2
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1938
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Arthur J. Burks
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Floods, fires, hold-ups, sports events—nothing escaped the all-seeing powers of the telescreens.
Challenge of Atlantis in Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct. 52/1
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1941
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James Blish
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There was even a telescreen whose eyes opened on the forward viewplate, so that the engineer could follow the maneuvering.
Real Thrill in Cosmic Stories July 71/2
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1957
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John Burke
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No word could reach the delegates. They were too deeply engrossed in their solemn ritual of speeches and declarations. Their faces and voices were carried out to telescreens all over the world.
Recusants in Authentic Science Fiction Feb. 41 -
1984
Robert Silverberg
The room was an electronic jungle, festooned with gadgetry: a synthesizer, a telescreen, a megabuck audio library, five sorts of data terminals and all manner of other things perfectly suited to you basic eighteenth-century Italian drawing room.
Gianni in R. Silverberg Conglomeroid Cocktail Party (1984) 154
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1987
Lone Starr looked up at the telescreen.
Spaceballs vi. 29
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2008
Arthur C. Clarke
Frederik Pohl
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Like everybody else in the world who owned a telescreen—which, to a close approximation, was pretty much everybody in the world—they had seen the rapturous news stories that had accompanied the Skyhook’s evolution to passenger-carrying.
Last Theorem xxxii. 209
Research requirements
antedating 1932
Earliest cite
Francis Flagg, "After Armageddon"
Research History
Mike Christie submitted a 1938 cite from Arthur J. Burks' "The Challenge of Atlantis".Fred Galvin submitted a cite for "tele-screen" from a 1946 reprint of Francis Flagg's "After Armageddon"; Jesse Sheidlower verified it in the story's first publication in Wonder Stories, September, 1932 Earliest cite in the OED: 1942.
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