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Telegraphy

noun

Communicating at a distance by electric transmission over wire.

Apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code). Synonym: telegraph.

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"Telegraphy" Quotes from Famous Books

... extended to the remotest corners of the earth, whither we send the commodities we have to spare, and whence we derive those which we need for comfort, convenience, luxury, and wealth. The extent to which steam applied to water navigation, and telegraphy laid not only over the continents but under the oceans, have stimulated our commerce in common with that of the world, is more easy to be observed in general than calculated in detail. With many nations ...

— The Nation in a Nutshell • George Makepeace Towle

... the replies. With a slight incredulity the conference which was to begin a new order in the world, gathered itself together. Leblanc summoned it without arrogance, he controlled it by virtue of an infinite humility. Men appeared upon those upland slopes with the apparatus for wireless telegraphy; others followed with tents and provisions; a little cable was flung down to a convenient point upon the Locarno road below. Leblanc arrived, sedulously directing every detail that would affect the tone of the assembly. He might have been a courier in advance rather than the originator ...

— The World Set Free • Herbert George Wells

... exchanged winks and nods as though there might be a secret between them; but Fred was paying no attention to this "wireless telegraphy." ...

— Fred Fenton on the Crew - or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School • Allen Chapman

... and district messengers, and the importunities of their daily mail. If they are women, they put special delivery stamps on letters which would lose nothing by a month's delay. If they are men, they exult in the thought that they can be reached by wireless telegraphy on mid-ocean. We are apt to think of these men and women as painful products of our own time and of our own land; but they have probably existed since the building of the Tower of Babel,—a nerve-racking piece ...

— Americans and Others • Agnes Repplier

... the space between the earth and the sun is a perfect void. That electricity cannot of itself pass through a vacuum seems to be a well-established law of physics. It is true that electromagnetic waves, which are supposed to be of the same nature with those of light, and which are used in wireless telegraphy, do pass through a vacuum and may pass from the sun to the earth. But there is no way of explaining how such waves would either produce or affect ...

— Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science • Simon Newcomb

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