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Wireless telegraph   /wˈaɪrlɪs tˈɛləgrˌæf/   Listen
Wireless telegraph

noun
1.
The use of radio to send telegraphic messages (usually by Morse code).  Synonyms: radiotelegraph, radiotelegraphy, wireless telegraphy.






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"Wireless telegraph" Quotes from Famous Books



... approached the houseboat I looked her over carefully. One of the first things I noticed was that there rose from the roof the primitive inverted V aerial of a wireless telegraph. I thought immediately of the unfinished letter and its contents, and shaded my eyes as I took a good look at the powerful transatlantic station on the spit of sand perhaps three or four miles distant, with its tall steel masts of the latest inverted L type and the cluster of little houses below, ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve

... particularly in the development of this country. We, although young in years, have become the greatest railroad builders in history, and have put into use mechanical machines like the harvester, the sewing machine, the telephone, the wireless telegraph, and almost numberless applications of electricity. Ships have been built of late years greatly departing from those immediately preceding them, so that at the present time they might be compared to floating cities with nearly all a city's conveniences and comforts. We ...
— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 • John A. Bensel

... had been active in setting up a wireless telegraph in a field near Headquarters and were able to get the various communiques which were sent out during the night by the different nations. The information was passed round Headquarters every morning on typewritten sheets and made most interesting ...
— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott



Words linked to "Wireless telegraph" :   radiotelegraph, radiotelegraphy, wireless telegraphy, wireless, radio



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