Dots

Examples

• I replied that I thought he was in the right place, and told him to get busy with his talk on dots and dashes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The other man took the receiver, and a moment later his ear caught the sound of three little clicks, faint, but distinct and unmistakable, the three dots of the letter S in the Morse Code. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• As there was no limit to the distance that electricity would travel there seemed no reason why these dots and dashes, or sparks and spaces, should not be sent all around the world. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Morse telegraphic code, consisting of dots, dashes, and spaces, is given in Figure 218. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The central dots in the section are the conducting wires round which are the gutta percha and hemp, and the outer rim represents the iron wire casing. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The various tones must be changed either to lines or dots, so as to make a printing surface for the ink roller of the press to operate. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Hence, the transmitted message was received on the tape in visible dots and dashes representing characters of the Morse alphabet. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He replaced the recording pencil with a fountain pen, and instead of the zigzag signals used the short and long lines that came to be called dots and dashes. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• His far-distant goal was to construct a machine that would carry, not the dots and dashes of the telegraph, but the complex vibrations of the human voice. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Arduous work was at once resumed at home on duplex and quadruplex telegraphy, just as though there had been no intermission or discouragement over dots twenty-seven feet long. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The absence of the i-dots in the old man's writing is also most characteristic. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• In this manner the letters of the alphabet were indicated by dots upon a strip of paper, kept slowly moving by clock mechanism. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The idea is to break up the surface into various sized dots, as the various gradations of color on the original cannot be transferred by any other method to a sheet of copper and etched. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The shifting of the type-wheels is brought about as follows: On the keyboard of the transmitter there are two characters known as dots--namely, the letter dot and the figure dot. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He perfected the dot and dash code, he invented the device for embossing the message, and replaced the inking pen by a metal disc, smeared with ink, that rolled the dots and dashes on the paper. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The alphabet consisted simply of an arrangement of dots and dashes in varying sequence. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• These movements give rise to the clicking sounds which represent the dots and dashes of the Morse or other alphabet as transmitted by the operator. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Thus, the transmission of Morse dots and dashes by the distant operator resulted in movements of corresponding length by the frictional pad and vibrating arm. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The dots are of various sizes, ranging from a minute stipple to a solid black, and they present to the eye the same effect as the unbroken tones of a photograph. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• By means of these pins the chemically prepared tape was marked with dots corresponding to the impulses as received, leaving upon it a legible record of the letters and words transmitted. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• By means of this adjunct the dashes and dots of the transmitted impulses could be recorded upon a paper ribbon passing continuously over the drum. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• One day, thinking he might be confined in a room facing the office, I put my arm out of the window and kept signalling dots and dashes by the movement of the arm. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The younger man had added an improvement of his own; instead of the dots and dashes being indicated by the markings of a pen or pencil they were embossed on the paper with a metal stylus. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It is one thing to send a message by the mechanical process of dots and dashes made by breaking and joining a current. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He opened and closed it so that the locomotive’s whistles resembled the dots and dashes of the telegraph code. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Some time prior to 1877, Edison had been experimenting on an automatic telegraph in which the letters were formed by embossing strips of paper with the proper arrangement of dots and dashes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Each of these parts was then sub divided into ten seconds, which were indicated by dots arranged in tran sverse oblique lines on the width of brass. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He had a large watch-chain, and strong black dots where his beard and whiskers would have been if he had let them. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Therefore Morse knew that if he devised his alphabet he had only to choose the best method of indicating the dots and dashes by the current. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The irregular lines of dots and dashes were translated into words in accordance with the principles of the Morse telegraph. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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