The telescreen struck fourteen

oh yes, it's a clock too ... but what is the first use of the word
'telescreen'? From the Glossary of Science Fiction Technology:

"George Orwell did not originate the word telescreen. An earlier use
can be found in a 1938 short story by writer A.J. Burks:

'Floods, fires, hold-ups, sports events-nothing escaped the all-seeing
powers of the telescreens.'

Earlier still (!), Francis Flagg (a pseudonym of George Henry Weiss'),
wrote in *After Armageddon* (1932):

'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'.

See the entry for the Televisor from Arthur J. Burks' 1938 novella
*The Challenge of Atlantis* for more details."

(technovelgy at http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=629)

I checked the online OED and this is the only entry specifically for
telescreen:

"1942 O. E. DUNLAP Future of Television vi. 80 The clarity of the
telescreen could not be compared to the sharpness of a newsreel. 1949
'G. ORWELL' Nineteen Eighty-Four I. 6 The telescreen received and
transmitted simultaneously."

Either the OED is not au courant, or the online edition is incomplete?
Still, Orwell is the first to use telescreen to mean a device that
"received and transmitted simultaneously". AND tell time.

B.