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UK
/tˈɛlɪɡɹəfi/
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NOUN
- apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code)
- communicating at a distance by electric transmission over wire
How To Use telegraphy In A Sentence
- Without the discoveries, inventions, and theories of these abstract scientific men telegraphy, as it now is, would be impossible.
- At the time, this was the unsolved problem of wireless telegraphy — as it still is to-day — but Emil Gluck, in his prison cell, mastered it. THE ENEMY OF ALL THE WORLD
- The expenditure in connection with wireless telegraphy is under the control of the Admiralty and included in its general budget. The Imperial Conference of 1907
- A wife whose mind was oriented in the new direction effectually silenced her husband's ridicule of what he called her credulity by reminding him that when wireless telegraphy was first suggested he had exclaimed, "Ah, that, you know, is one of the things that is not possible! Four-Dimensional Vistas
- The Goodwin Sands lightships are to be put in communication with the shore by means of wireless telegraphy and the installation is to be completed in about a month.
- In applied mathematics he studied optics, electricity, telegraphy, capillarity, elasticity, thermodynamics, potential theory, quantum theory, theory of relativity and cosmology.
- Around 1912, Johnson had his first experience with electronics when his half brother, Charlie Nelson, strung lines between two neighborhood houses for Morse telegraphy.
- Various modes of communication - railroads, telegraphy, telephony, broadcasting - have been enlisted as part of the nation building and cultural identity strategies of successive governments throughout Canadian history.
- In 1918 he patented a generator which converted mechanical energy into high frequency electric currents which could be used for wireless telegraphy.
- In this function it is a significant incremental improvement to pre-existing telegraphy and telephony.