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Wireless telegraphy

noun
1.
Telegraphy that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire.  Synonyms: radiotelegraph, radiotelegraphy.
2.
The use of radio to send telegraphic messages (usually by Morse code).  Synonyms: radiotelegraph, radiotelegraphy, wireless telegraph.






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"Wireless telegraphy" Quotes from Famous Books



... cosmopolitan. Though he still makes his home in his native land, he belongs to all countries, to all oceans, for it is everywhere now that his great discovery is made use of. No need for me to mention the present day uses of wireless telegraphy and radio communication aided greatly by the inventions of others. But it is to Marconi these owe ...
— Radio Boys Loyalty - Bill Brown Listens In • Wayne Whipple

... the mind of any commander would have revolted at this spectacle of wanton destruction of property and callous indifference to human life. It is quite probable that had this event occurred before the invention of wireless telegraphy had robbed the navy commander at sea of all initiative, there might have happened off Nantucket something analogous to the famous action of Commodore Tatnall when with the cry, "Blood is thicker than water" he took a part of his crew to the aid of British vessels ...
— Aircraft and Submarines - The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day - Uses of War's Newest Weapons • Willis J. Abbot



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



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