How To Use Telegraph line In A Sentence
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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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While en route, Charles Todd commissioned him to act as estafette between the construction parties of the Overland Telegraph Line.
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By the end of the 19th century, the world was criss-crossed by telegraph lines, including numerous cables beneath the Atlantic Ocean.
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Heavy snow blocked roads and railways and brought down telegraph lines in many areas.
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Thousands of trees and telegraph lines were blown down and snows blocked roads and left many villages cut off.
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Trees were uprooted and telegraph lines collapsed.
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Trains went missing as railway lines were blocked and their whereabouts remained a mystery with phone and telegraph lines down.
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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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Thousands of trees and telegraph lines were blown down and snows blocked roads and left many villages cut off.
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In 1862, the Union Army constructed nearly 4,000 miles of telegraph lines that transmitted over one million military dispatches.
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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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In 1881 while working as a telegraph linesman, he married Mary Ann Bralla, an eighteen year old girl from Blinman.
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Trees were uprooted and telegraph lines collapsed.
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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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Heavy snow blocked roads and railways and brought down telegraph lines in many areas.
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Heavy snow blocked roads and railways and brought down telegraph lines in many areas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Trees were uprooted and telegraph lines collapsed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Heavy snow blocked roads and railways and brought down telegraph lines in many areas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Trains went missing as railway lines were blocked and their whereabouts remained a mystery with phone and telegraph lines down.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were also employed in the construction of the Overland Telegraph line and of a railway across the desert - which was called the Ghan, after their handlers, believed to come from Afghanistan.
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Trains went missing as railway lines were blocked and their whereabouts remained a mystery with phone and telegraph lines down.
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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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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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Among these were a relay booster for telegraph lines and a fire-safety curtain for theaters.
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Roads were blocked for days in some places and telegraph lines collapsed under the weight of snow.
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Heavy snow blocked roads and railways and brought down telegraph lines in many areas.
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I've carried a shovel, crowbar, heavy "rammer," a dozen insulators on an average (strung round my shoulders with raw flax) - to say nothing of soldiering kit, tucker-bag, billy and climbing spurs -- all day on a telegraph line in rough country in New Zealand, and in places where a man had to manage his load with one hand and help himself climb with the other; and I've helped hump and drag telegraph-poles up cliffs and sidings where the horses couldn't go.
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The first teamster to provide transport services in and around Quorn was William Abbott, who operated from Saltia where he started carting materials for the Overland Telegraph Line.
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From 1936 onwards short-wave radio stations replaced the posts on the Yukon Telegraph line.
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It were not just telegraph lines and telegraphy which he brought to South Australia.
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Small groups of Canadian Fenians would cut the telegraph lines, destroy the railway bridge that connected Canada West and Canada East, infiltrate the Canadian militia, and suborn British soldiers.
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The ice was so thick that it brought down power, phone and telegraph lines.
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Trees were uprooted and telegraph lines collapsed.
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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 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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The ice was so thick that it brought down power, phone and telegraph lines.
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Roads were blocked for days in some places and telegraph lines collapsed under the weight of snow.
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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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By the end of the 19th century, the world was criss-crossed by telegraph lines, including numerous cables beneath the Atlantic Ocean.
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Of course we would like it because it was part of the No.8 gauge galvanised iron wire that was used in the original overland telegraph line.
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Six months after the arrival of the telegraph, all southern provinces were linked by telegraph lines.