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Heliograph   Listen
noun
Heliograph  n.  
1.
A picture taken by heliography; a photograph.
2.
An instrument for taking photographs of the sun.
3.
An apparatus for telegraphing by means of the sun's rays. See Heliotrope, 3.





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"Heliograph" Quotes from Famous Books



... on level ground. No, I'm telling you, boy, that there cliff is the place—lemme tell you how it got its name. A long time ago when the Indians were bad they had a soldiers' post right here where this town stands, and they kept a lookout up on the Picket Post butte, where they could heliograph clear down to Tucson. Well, every time a bunch of Indians would go down out of the hills to raid some wagon-train on the trail this lookout would see them and signal Tucson and the soldiers would do the rest. It got so bymeby the Indians couldn't do anything ...
— Silver and Gold - A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp • Dane Coolidge
... introduced the semaphore as a signal, and field tactics the heliograph or reflecting mirror which, however, is only of service when there is a ...
— Marvels of Modern Science • Paul Severing
... his new-wed bride to keep his house in order, And hied away to the Hurrum Hills above the Afghan border, To sit on a rock with a heliograph; but ere he left he taught His wife the working of the Code that sets the miles ...
— Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads • Rudyard Kipling
... hidden in the obscurity of the past. Of course, the most primitive light-signals were wood fires, but it is likely that man early utilized the mirror to reflect the sun's image and thus laid the foundation of the modern heliograph. The Book of Job, which is probably one of the oldest writings available, mentions molten mirrors. The Egyptians in the time of Moses used mirrors of polished brass. Euclid in the third century before ...
— Artificial Light - Its Influence upon Civilization • M. Luckiesh
... and attempted, figuratively, to pinch him here and there. They found that his actions were greater than his words, and both were in perfect harmony in the end, though his words often seemed pointless to their minds, until they understood that they had conveyed truths through a medium more like a heliograph than a telephone. By-and-by they began to understand his heliographing, and, when they did that, they began to swear by him, not ...
— Northern Lights • Gilbert Parker


Words linked to "Heliograph" :   signalise, setup, signalize, sign, signal, apparatus


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