Signals

Examples

• It was not, however, till the invention of telegraphs that anything approaching to the means of holding regular communication by signals was attained. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• By means of signals they could be informed where to direct their shots. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The signals of his telegraph consisted of the bubbles of gas arising from the decomposition of water, during the action of the electric current. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Those are signals--it is their way--the attack must be near. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The day before the convention met Morse had arranged with Vail that certain signals should mean that certain candidates had been nominated. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• As this causes a loud repetition of the original signals, it will be seen that relaying is an economic method of extending a telegraph circuit beyond the natural limits of its battery power. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The drill of the student involved chiefly the acquisition of the special signals employed in railway work, including the numerals and abbreviations applied to save time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This device being a relay, its purpose is to repeat transmitted signals into a local circuit, as before explained. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Who else rustles about it, making signals by dropping dust so softly? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• 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.
• He made all manner of gestures while he spoke, as if in incidental imitation of some few of the great diversity of signals that he had never seen. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• This was in reality the first example of railroad trains moved by telegraph signals, a practice now so common and universal as to attract no comment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Possibly, if he had observed the brief interchange of signals, he might have thought that it boded no good to him. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• They would also take off the signals of the enemy and transmit them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Wireless signals are in reality wave motions in the magnetic forces of the earth, or, in other words, disturbances of those forces. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• If this disk was removed from the machine and put on a similar machine provided with a contact point, the embossed record would cause the signals to be repeated into another wire. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The ordinary speed of telegraphic signals is thirty-five to forty words a minute; but with this machine several hundred words were possible. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In this way a rapid succession of signals can be sent. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The first method that suggested itself was to transmit signals by means of pith-ball electrometers. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• There was a colored man in the fort who had been there before and who understood these signals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• For the action of this very efficient telegraph only five wires were required, and the signals being all primary ones, the messages might have been transmitted very quickly. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The dynamo was driven by the wave or tide motion through intermediate mechanism, and thus the lamps were lit up from time to time, serving as signals. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Within the space of three minutes similar signals boomed in the east and west. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• There are a great many different kinds of signals for the guidance of vessels during fogs, when lights or other visible signals cannot be perceived. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Marconi of Italy has been more successful in this direction, and has sent electric messages and signals from high stations over the English Channel from the shores of France to England. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Signals for the day and signals for the night gave constant and timely notice of the position of switches. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is well known that one operator can recognize another by the way in which he makes his signals--it is his style of handwriting. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Cooke and Wheatstone so far simplified the arrangements of their needle telegraph as to make all the requisite signals with two needles. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The extension of these arms on one side or the other, either separately or together, and at different angles, constituted a variety of signals sufficient for the purposes of communication. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Then there was a cessation of all signals; then I made out the words 'Minor Botts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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