By that time electronic telegraph was in the ascendent, and would grow to supplant the European semaphore networks. |
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The bear proceeded rather deliberately to nose the hotel's telegraph key before walking out the front door into the night. |
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Today, of course, we are no longer tethered to telegraph or telephone wires for conversation. |
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As soon as the telegraph lines were back up and running she'd wire the Western Rangers, after all this was what they did for a living. |
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Reporters in the late 1800s kept their stories short to save on telegraph charges. |
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In 1881 while working as a telegraph linesman, he married Mary Ann Bralla, an eighteen year old girl from Blinman. |
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My name's Betty Pearce and my dad was the son of a white man named Tom Williams, who was a linesman for the telegraph line. |
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The pioneers invested heavily in productive capital assets like mines, overland telegraph lines, dams and artesian bores. |
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In many places, his telegraph line was simply tacked onto trees instead of being tacked onto poles. |
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The Germans also launched a maladroit effort to entice Mexico into the war, exposed by the Zimmermann telegraph affair. |
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In turn, the Afghan camel teamsters followed the telegraph line, as did, soon after, the Central Australian Railway. |
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The train can only proceed when the line ahead is clear, as indicated back to the previous staff station by telegraph. |
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He was instructed to announce, if possible, his coming by telegraph and report to the medical director at the place of destination. |
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There was so much emigration in the past I remember, in the post office, people would send money home by telegraph every week. |
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There were now 50,000 miles of telegraph wire in the theatre of war, making coverage more extensive and immediate. |
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Six months after the arrival of the telegraph, all southern provinces were linked by telegraph lines. |
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However, message transmission by telegraph was a slow and sometimes uncertain way of sending information. |
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The encirclement of the world by telegraph by the early 1870s represented yet another revolution in communications. |
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There was also the Morse code telegraph system which dated from the earliest days and remained in use to supplement the telephones. |
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On 11 May 1874 the residents of Callington celebrated the connection by telegraph with Adelaide. |
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In 1877 the town was connected by telegraph to Adelaide but it was not until 1911 that a telephone exchange was installed. |
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Miraculously, even the telegraph wires along which Morse code messages once pulsed still dangle in the breeze. |
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The telegraph wires had broken as well, according to the couple that had stopped by. |
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For about a hundred years the principal method of long distance communication was by telegraph. |
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It was communication by telegraph that brought one of the biggest revolutions in weather forecasting techniques. |
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Once the codebook was established and disseminated, a telegraph could serve as such a device. |
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Henry had a telegraph in his mill office, he knew before anybody, about the moving armies. |
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Devices like the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, and radio annihilated physical and temporal distance. |
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When the telegraph board is placed at the first teeing-ground, a person will be in charge of it, to note the order of starting. |
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How do we not telegraph to the rest of the world that we are vulnerable in some way? |
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You never want to telegraph that you underestimate in any way, shape or form your opponent's strength. |
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It's my opinion that both these methods are turgid in the extreme and what is more, they telegraph Germany's intentions early on. |
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Make sure that your upper body doesn't make any unnecessary movements that will telegraph your intentions to your opponent. |
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Learning telegraphy, he worked in various midwestern cities as a telegraph and presswire operator. |
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It were not just telegraph lines and telegraphy which he brought to South Australia. |
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As far as I know the seeds of the telegraph plant need to be scarified before soaking them for the 12 hours. |
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Also, look for the golden yellow blooms of snakeweed, turpentinebush, goldeneyes, and telegraph plants. |
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In last month's crash a spinning car brought a telegraph pole and live power cables crashing onto nearby homes. |
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It has been designed to blend in with what is already there, and to look like a telegraph pole. |
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It looked as though it had hit the wall, a telegraph pole and some road signs as well. |
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A BT telegraph pole was hauled down as the lorry skidded along the road, leaving residents without a phone line for hours. |
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He hung from the guttering, cutting at the telephone wire that hung between the house and the nearest telegraph pole. |
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At first glance it looks like an ordinary telegraph pole but it's really a cunningly disguised mobile phone mast. |
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The long planks of timber fell off the truck to the left, knocking down a telegraph pole and felling telephone lines in the area. |
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The car then veered across the road and hit a telegraph pole, eventually becoming lodged between the pole and a tree. |
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But residents say only two people appear to have been sent letters about the new mast which is designed to look like a telegraph pole. |
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At midnight yesterday the Government imposed full control over all communication by telephone and telegraph. |
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The steam printing press, telegraph, radio and television have all revolutionized media in some way or another. |
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The development of spin off technologies, such as the telegraph and semaphore flags, linked Civil War commanders on the first information net. |
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He was tied to a telegraph pole in a field on the outskirts of Cork City where he was repeatedly beaten by a gang of up to five men. |
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After the invention of the electrical telegraph in 1839, telegraph lines were laid alongside all the major railway tracks. |
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The truck came to rest on its side in the car park, after demolishing a telegraph pole and shedding half its load of soya. |
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As he started in rearranging the foliage on the wreath he signaled the waiting transmigrator operator to telegraph the bottle back to The Ship. |
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He discusses the science of the telegraph and the transoceanic telegraph cables that linked the world. |
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A cabin enclosing the ship's wheel, compass binnacle and a telegraph to the engine room. |
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One car ended up in a field after skidding off the road and up a bank, narrowly missing a tree and telegraph pole. |
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Instead, a voice-over quoting from telegraph reports briefly mentions some of the mob's racist violence. |
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Black tube steel was sourced from local foundries, together with telegraph poles and guy wires which were donated by a power supplier. |
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The first telegraph messages from overseas were received in Morse code in this building on 22 October 1872 via the Overland Telegraph Line. |
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They served as clerks and couriers, telephone and telegraph operators, code and cipher analysts, and spies behind enemy lines in Europe. |
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The turbine he wanted was in galvanised steel and no taller than a telegraph pole and was almost noiseless, added Mr Kershaw. |
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The verdant hills and raised valleys are ideal for its commodes with ample erect telegraph poles to mark its new territorial space. |
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They elaborated the connections between the telegraph and spiritualist phenomena in an effort to legitimize their supernatural experiences. |
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The industry's bush telegraph often gives competitors several month's warning of a launch. |
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The industry bush telegraph is predicting more job cuts at Ericsson ahead of its Q1 earning figures on Friday. |
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Zhao Ziyang was away on a state visit to North Korea but received the text by telegraph and wired back his total agreement. |
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It had two stores, a post office and telegraph station, wheelwrights, blacksmiths and a pound. |
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One car even catapulted a telegraph pole into her house in the latest collision at the weekend. |
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Later, runners, telegraph, semaphore, heliograph and line were used to communicate. |
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Trees had been uprooted, telegraph poles broken, roofs torn off, advertising hoardings smashed and lorries turned over. |
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He lost control of the car, striking a kerb, a stone wall and a telegraph pole. |
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I told her that I would telegraph her with my reply as soon as possible. |
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The jazz bush telegraph has ensured that audiences for jazz in Howden are continuing to grow, with people travelling from Leeds, Scarborough, York and Hull. |
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And in the mean time, we can telegraph the Judge in Sacramento. |
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Of course the delay in delivering a letter across the Atlantic Ocean was considerable in those days, the first transoceanic telegraph still decades in the future. |
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Resting, appropriately, on mortuary trestles, the piece is a kind of reliquary for the doomed 1854 vessel that was designed to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable. |
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The mathematical description of heat flow linked his work on thermodynamics, the cooling of the Earth and even the flow of electrical signals through telegraph wires. |
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Women as perpetrators include nearly 200 women tried as spies, smugglers, couriers, and saboteurs conducting such activity as cutting telegraph wire. |
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The invention of the teletypewriter and its development of the teleprinter, linked to the telegraph system, added a further dimension to communications. |
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Distortions on the bush telegraph begin, via the Chinese whispers effect. |
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He reckons the bush telegraph would soon get the others to slow down. |
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The playing of music brought the penalty of a public lashing, audio cassettes were smashed and the tapes fluttered from telegraph posts in most cities. |
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The sender would tap out messages in Morse code, which would be transmitted down the telegraph wire to a human decoder translating them back into ordinary characters. |
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From there they would repair telegraph lines, escort traders and pioneers, and, if necessary, fight the Cheyenne and their allies the Comanches and Kiowas. |
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But just as the petrol engine overtook the trams and the telephone surpassed the telegraph, it now seems the mobile is set to conquer the landline. |
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By the 1840s, the clamor for intelligence by brokers and other investors had already resulted in a telegraph operating between New York and Philadelphia. |
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You can operate an optical telegraph as used in the Napoleonic wars, crank up second world war field telephones and learn to read Morse and semaphore. |
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The curlew and oystercatcher are back and the great spotted woodpeckers have chosen the oldest telegraph poles in the village for best quality drumming sounds. |
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If a web site changes, but the change is not immediately visible, then any consequence is dependent on the web bush telegraph slowly widening the knowledge base. |
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He would ask after them from a mutual friend, sure, but would he drive across state lines to deliver their wife's baby when the snows had brought down telegraph lines? |
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A woman sits at a telegraph key and rattles Morse code along a wire. |
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Even online chat rooms have an antecedent in the exchanges of nineteenth-century American telegraph operators. |
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It is believed the lorry hit a telegraph pole as it was negotiating a bend shortly after 9am yesterday, and it toppled onto its side, trapping the driver in the cab. |
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In 1832, Baron Schilling, a Russian diplomat, linked the Summer Palace of the tsar in St Petersburg to the Winter Palace using a telegraph with rotating magnetized needles. |
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And the sleuth-hounds of the law, the paid fighting animals of society, with telephone, and telegraph, and special train, clung to his trail night and day. |
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In 1832, the same year he became professor of painting and sculpture at the University of the City of New York, he drafted his first ideas for an electric telegraph. |
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With no official course, no maps and, for half the race, no roads, drivers navigate by counting telegraph poles, by compass and by observing the position of the sun. |
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Icons of the genre, Jay Z, 50 cent, Kanye West, effortlessly telegraph cool. |
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He may telegraph from his country much news which is unexceptionable. |
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An overspill from the pub sat on the wall opposite with pints and ghetto-blasters and a dozen pairs of runners hung by their laces from the telegraph wires overhead. |
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Telegraph lines were often built alongside the railways, and steamships laid the submarine cables that took the telegraph network across the seas and oceans. |
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From the private hall a flight of stairs led to the upper floor, where there were rooms for the postmaster, stores, telegraph linesmen, postmen, and the female clerks. |
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We came home from work on July 3 to discover our telephone had been cut off and BT engineers had erected a new telegraph pole a few metres from our home on the green. |
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Dering's proposals for a transmarine telegraph are contained in his patent specification of August 15, 1853, from which we condense the following account. |
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There is another celebrated instance in the telegraph plant, Desmodium gyrens of Bengal, whose leaflets keep moving all the time without any touch. |
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It was founded by Paul Julius Reuter, a German Jew transplanted to London who had once used carrier pigeons to bridge a telegraph gap between Belgium and Germany. |
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So we are having to rely on the bush telegraph to let people know it is for sale. |
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David Hughes' telegraph was internationally used until the 1930s, and his microphone is the forerunner of all the carbon microphones now in use. |
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I was a very good radio operator. I bought my own bug. That's what the telegraph key in its modern form was called. It was semiautomatic. |
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At 4 or 5, he learned to dial by using the hookswitch like a telegraph key. |
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By 1902, the British Empire was linked together by a network of telegraph cables, called the All Red Line. |
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Working both sides of the stream, they got native chieftains to pass the word by jungle telegraph. |
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And the jungle telegraph at Bryant Park is alive with rumors that the show's biggest name, Lauren Conrad, will be here any day. |
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Even later communication methods such as electric power, telegraph, and telephones, had an impact. |
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By the late 1800s, the telephone, ticker tape and the telegraph had been invented. |
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Culley, the engineer in chief of the Post Office telegraph system, who had been dismissing duplex as impractical. |
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In 1880, Heaviside researched the skin effect in telegraph transmission lines. |
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Firstly, there was no convenient means of operating the line as single track as the line predated the telegraph. |
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It was improved with the invention of the telegraph and the ability to issue train orders. |
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This improved with the development of the telegraph and the train order system. |
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It authorised an early version of nationalisation, having the Post Office buy up the telegraph companies. |
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The terms, arranged by telegraph with the Allied Authorities in Paris, were communicated to the Austrian commander and accepted. |
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He laughs a deep laugh that rumbles up from somewhere in his drumskin stomach. It spooks the mossies on the overhead telegraph wire. |
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In 1875, Bell developed an acoustic telegraph and drew up a patent application for it. |
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For his work on the transatlantic telegraph project he was knighted in 1866 by Queen Victoria, becoming Sir William Thomson. |
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In conjunction with the latter, he also devised an automatic curb sender, a kind of telegraph key for sending messages on a cable. |
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The Lydbrook valley was also a thriving centre for metal industries, such as the manufacture of telegraph cables. |
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Radio was in early use, with naval ships commonly equipped with radio telegraph, merchant ships less so. |
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In some countries, telegraph and later telephones came under the same government department as the postal system. |
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It induced currents strong enough to short out telegraph lines, and aurorae were reported as far south as Hawaii. |
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Buxton of Scilly attempted to persuade the Post Office to install a telegraph cable to the Isles of Scilly. |
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Communication was also greatly improved with the invention of the telegraph, telephone, radio and television. |
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As ships adopted radio telegraph sets for communication, such time signals were used to correct chronometers. |
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The Atlantic Telegraph Company was formed in London in 1856 to undertake to construct a commercial telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean. |
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The telephone was patented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell, and like the early telegraph, it was used mainly to speed business transactions. |
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When the telegraph became available, companies built telegraph lines along the railroads to keep track of trains. |
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In 1885, the Meiji government sponsored a telegraph system, throughout Japan, situating the telegraphs in all major Japanese cities at the time. |
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The earliest commercial uses of electricity were electroplating and the telegraph. |
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In 1840 Wheatstone was using a magneto that he developed to power the telegraph. |
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The first railway, the Trunk Line between Christiania and Eidsvoll opened in 1854, followed a year later by the first telegraph line. |
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Arsim Sinani comments that the present politics in Macedonia resembles a bush telegraph. |
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He was discovered close to an historic bush telegraph station, a few miles from the town where he was staying. |
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The rapid expansion of telegraph networks took place throughout the century, with the first undersea cable being built by John Watkins Brett between France and England. |
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Additionally, the telegraph reduced the independence of British overseas possessions from their commanders in London due to such rapid communications. |
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National infrastructure including telegraph and transcontinental railroads spurred economic growth and greater settlement and development of the American Old West. |
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Heaviside's equations helped further the implementation of the telegraph. |
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Two years later he took a job as a telegraph operator with the Danish Great Northern Telegraph Company laying a cable from Newcastle to Denmark using British contractors. |
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With electric telegraph installed between stations, passenger trains were not permitted to leave a station until confirmation had been received that the line was clear. |
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Her long reign saw Britain reach the zenith of its economic and political power, with the introduction of steam ships, railroads, photography, and the telegraph. |
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Death prompted a dream of cosmic flight, figured in the language of the telegraph, as if Heaven was a visitable place in the known, reachable world. |
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As the fleet left Tangiers, one ship accidentally severed the city's underwater telegraph cable with her anchor, preventing communications with Europe for four days. |
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We saw wedged-tailed eagles scouting for wallabies, bluewinged kookaburras perched on telegraph wires, and delicate jacanas pacing carefully across lily pad-choked waterways. |
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We saw wedgedtailed eagles scouting for wallabies, blue winged kookaburras perched on telegraph wires, and delicate jacanas pacing carefully across lilypadchoked waterways. |
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Previously the only way to produce electricity was by chemical reactions or using battery cells, and the only practical use of electricity was for the telegraph. |
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New inventions, such as the train and telegraph, delivered soldiers, supplies and messages at a time when horses were considered to be the fastest way to travel. |
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He also had a career as an electric telegraph engineer and inventor, which propelled him into the public eye and ensured his wealth, fame and honour. |
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Marconi wrote to the Ministry of Post and Telegraphs, then under the direction of Pietro Lacava, explaining his wireless telegraph machine and asking for funding. |
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At the turn of the 20th century, Marconi began investigating the means to signal completely across the Atlantic in order to compete with the transatlantic telegraph cables. |
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To help improve track safety street signs are removed at parts of the track and bales of hay are used to wrap the base of lampposts and telegraph poles. |
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Finally, the combination of the availability of marine chronometers and wireless telegraph time signals put an end to the use of lunars in the 20th century. |
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Bell concentrated on experimenting with electricity to convey sound and later installed a telegraph wire from his room in Somerset College to that of a friend. |
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In 1881, telegraph service connected Villahermosa with Mexico City. |
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Shortwave radio vastly increased the speed and capacity of transatlantic communications at dramatically reduced cost compared to telegraph cable and long wave radio. |
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At the end of the century, technological innovations such as the telegraph, telephone, electricity and rail lines connected the state with the rest of Mexico. |
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Learning of the fall of Delhi by telegraph, many Company administrators hastened to remove themselves, their families and servants to places of safety. |
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The enormous expansion of rail and telegraph lines after 1870 allowed unprecedented movement of people and ideas, which culminated in a new wave of globalization. |
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