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By that time electronic telegraph was in the ascendent, and would grow to supplant the European semaphore networks.
The bear proceeded rather deliberately to nose the hotel's telegraph key before walking out the front door into the night.
Today, of course, we are no longer tethered to telegraph or telephone wires for conversation.
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.
Reporters in the late 1800s kept their stories short to save on telegraph charges.
In 1881 while working as a telegraph linesman, he married Mary Ann Bralla, an eighteen year old girl from Blinman.
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.
The pioneers invested heavily in productive capital assets like mines, overland telegraph lines, dams and artesian bores.
In many places, his telegraph line was simply tacked onto trees instead of being tacked onto poles.
The Germans also launched a maladroit effort to entice Mexico into the war, exposed by the Zimmermann telegraph affair.
In turn, the Afghan camel teamsters followed the telegraph line, as did, soon after, the Central Australian Railway.
The train can only proceed when the line ahead is clear, as indicated back to the previous staff station by telegraph.
He was instructed to announce, if possible, his coming by telegraph and report to the medical director at the place of destination.
There was so much emigration in the past I remember, in the post office, people would send money home by telegraph every week.
There were now 50,000 miles of telegraph wire in the theatre of war, making coverage more extensive and immediate.
Six months after the arrival of the telegraph, all southern provinces were linked by telegraph lines.
However, message transmission by telegraph was a slow and sometimes uncertain way of sending information.
The encirclement of the world by telegraph by the early 1870s represented yet another revolution in communications.
There was also the Morse code telegraph system which dated from the earliest days and remained in use to supplement the telephones.
On 11 May 1874 the residents of Callington celebrated the connection by telegraph with Adelaide.
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Poles from Zanzibar have been distributed for a telegraph line from Mohammerah to Ahwaz.
I wanted to send a telegram to my mother, but this was impossible, as there was no telegraph at Alicante.
The original telegraph of Morse, exhibited in 1837, has become an archaic form.
Wheatstone was knighted in 1868, after his completion of the automatic telegraph.
The total length of telegraph lines in 1903 was 6470 m., the only cable connexion being at Buenaventura, on the Pacific coast.
A bush telegraph, you see, is mostly worked about the neighbourhood he was born in.
I heard your mother say that one could telegraph from carcajou for a doctor.
Sanders sat in the little telegraph office, and the Morse sounder rattled and clacked for half an hour.
Sinkers was telegraph messenger, and was strictly a company man in spite of everything.
Especially if all the telegraph operators was like the one up at the depot.
Let us return, however, to the history of the telegraph in England, from which we have digressed.
If we could sort of get it out of her diplomatically, we could telegraph to Rouen for a good one.
Besides the barracks there are a circuit house, DK bungalow, courthouse, and post and telegraph offices.
He delights to sit on a telegraph wire or a stem of elephant grass and there make cheerful melody.
He said he would telegraph as well as he could en clair to let Jules Favre know this.
They have seen the telegraph line, as can be seen by signs they make, but they cannot speak English.
The route we shall take is by the cattle steamer from Esbjerg to Harwich, from which latter place I will telegraph.
Tawell was executed, and the notoriety of the case brought the telegraph into repute.
The conduits for telephone and telegraph service were four-way, and were located in the core-wall.
In the subgrade telephone and telegraph ducts east of the Manhattan Shaft, much trouble was caused by grout in the ducts.
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