Wireless
['waɪəlɪs] or ['waɪɚləs]
Definition
(noun.) transmission by radio waves.
(adj.) having no wires; 'a wireless security system' .
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Examples
- Wireless press messages between America and Europe are also matters of daily performances. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The sending of the wireless message requires a source of production of the electro-magnetic waves. Rupert S. Holland. Historic 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.
- 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.
- When the wireless operator wishes to send a message to another station he listens in, as it is called, by connecting his receiving apparatus with the adjacent antenna and the ground. Rupert S. Holland. Historic 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.
- 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.
- He was precocious to an extraordinary degree, for in 1895, when only twenty-one, he had produced a wireless transmitting apparatus that he patented in Italy. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Probably you will say the wireless telegraph, the flying machine, moving pictures or the phonograph, but it would be none of these, according to the _Scientific American_. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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