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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

... the powers of electricity, and one who is still a young man, is Guglielmo Marconi, a native of Bologna. It was he who invented the great system of wireless telegraphy which is now used in nearly all big ships. In 1899 he first succeeded in sending a message in this way from England to France, and in the next year he sent one right across the Atlantic. Now ships frequently send a Marconigram home when they are right in the middle of the ocean; and many lives ...

— Stories That Words Tell Us • Elizabeth O'Neill

... where is your holiday to be, with you tied to your Mother Country with a stringless apron? That is what that old wireless telegraphy reminds me of," laughed the young man, showing all his perfect teeth. "Well, I've got your chair and steamer rug all ready for you and all you have to do is come sit ...

— Molly Brown's Orchard Home • Nell Speed

... same way you could call Napoleon a soldier or Lincoln a statesman. He is a detective, if you like to call him that, the master detective of the world. He has a great house in one of the backwater squares of New York, for his office. He has wireless telegraphy, private chemists, a little troop of spies, private telegraph and cable, and agents in every city of the world. If he moves against any gang, they break up. No one can really understand him. Sometimes he ...

— The Black Box • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... excitement everywhere at this news. It rapidly flew from Sagasta-weekee to the fort, and then on to the mission. As though by some mysterious telegraphy, it passed from one Indian settlement to another, yea, from wigwam to wigwam, until the cry everywhere was, "Niskepesim! Niskepesim!" ("The goose moon! The ...

— Winter Adventures of Three Boys • Egerton R. Young

... 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

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