Dashes

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.
• 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.
• Jem Spyers dashes out; and there he sees Chickweed, a-tearing down the street full cry. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He never wrote to me without asking for money in his life, and all his letters are full of bad spelling, and dashes, and bad grammar. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• 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.
• He abandoned the attempt to cut dashes as such, in the paper tape, but instead punched three round holes so arranged as to form a triangle. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• When this pickerel saw the red roach through the glass, he made one of those awful dashes which is usually the ruin of whatever stands in its way; but he didn't reach the red roach. 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.
• From Twemlow's, Veneering dashes at Podsnap's place of business. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• A certain group of perforations corresponds to a Morse group of dots and dashes for a letter of the alphabet. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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