Telegraphy
[tɪ'legrəfɪ] or [tə'lɛɡrəfi]
Definition
(noun.) communicating at a distance by electric transmission over wire.
Edited by Guthrie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The science or art of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as, submarine telegraphy.
Typist: Trevor
Examples
- American youths to-day are given, if of a mechanical turn of mind, to amateur telegraphy or telephony, but seldom, if ever, have to make any part of the system constructed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Two methods of space telegraphy at sea. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The application was filed May 23, 1885, at the time he was working on induction telegraphy (two years before the publication of the work of Hertz), but the patent (No. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Electroplating became an art, and telegraphy sprang into active being on both sides of the Atlantic. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- An idea of their complexity may be gathered from the following, which is quoted from American Telegraphy and Encyclopedia of the Telegraph, by William Maver, Jr. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The first was to Lord Kelvin, the Nestor of physics in Europe, for his work in submarine-cable telegraphy and other scientific achievement. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and 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.
- He took out a patent covering wireless telegraphy in 1891, but other matters were then absorbing his attention, and he was quite willing to yield that field to the brilliant Italian, Marconi. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Though the honor of inventing the art of wireless telegraphy is generally ascribed to Marconi, this is to give him more credit than he deserves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Edison made another notable contribution to multiplex telegraphy some years later in the Phonoplex. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The record of wireless telegraphy has been in this way improved until now it has come into daily competition with other means of news sending. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Those were the early days of trade unionism in telegraphy, and the movement will probably never quite die out in the craft which has always shown so much solidarity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Edison took out a patent covering wireless telegraphy before Marconi gave his name to the new means of communication. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Most of the time he was monkeying with the batteries and circuits, and devising things to make the work of telegraphy less irksome. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Professor Barlow's Demonstration that Telegraphy was Impracticable. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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