Telegraphy

Word TELEGRAPHY
Character 10
Hyphenation te leg ra phy
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Telegraphy"

What do we mean by telegraphy?

Communication by means of the telegraph. noun

The art or practice of communicating intelligence by a telegraph; the science or art of constructing or managing telegraphs. noun

The science or art of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs. noun

Communication at a distance by means of the telegraph, either over wires or by wireless telegraphy, usually using Morse code noun

The apparatus and techniques used in such a system noun

Apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code) noun

Communicating at a distance by electric transmission over wire noun

Communication at a distance by means of the telegraph, either over wires or by wireless telegraphy, usually using Morse code

The apparatus and techniques used in such a system

Synonyms and Antonyms for Telegraphy

The word "telegraphy" in example sentences

One great difficulty was that of recruiting radio operators owing to the fact that wireless telegraphy is very little used in the commercial air services over here, which operate by means of the radio ranges, and radio telephony when within range of the control towers of the airfields. ❋ Unknown (1943)

The expenditure in connection with wireless telegraphy is under the control of the Admiralty and included in its general budget. ❋ Unknown (1907)

What is the key to the greatest scientific discovery of modern times, viz. wireless or aetherial telegraphy, which is girdling the earth with its mysterious communications? ❋ William George Hooper (N/A)

"You're sure you've took no 'arm?" cried Mrs. Cloke, who had heard the news by farm-telegraphy, which is older but swifter than Marconi's. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

The idea of its founder was that it should teach not only the studies usually taught in college, but also other practical branches of education, such as telegraphy, type-setting, type-writing, book-keeping, and farming. ❋ Burton Egbert Stevenson (1917)

This is true of communications (post & telegraphy expansion, interstate telephony, internet), transportation (railroad land grants, infrastructure), energy (all kinds of massive subsidies for exploration and market development). ❋ Unknown (2010)

His goal was to use radio waves to create a practical system of “wireless telegraphy” – or the transmission of telegraphs without the use of wires. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Rockefellers went into mines -- iron and coal and copper and lead; into other industrial companies; into street railways, into national, state, and municipal bonds; into steamships and steamboats and telegraphy; into real estate, into skyscrapers and residences and hotels and business blocks; into life insurance, into banking. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The implications of the radical collapse in the cost of wireless connectivity are as big as those following the dawn of telegraphy/telephony. ❋ Mark P. Mills (2012)

In fact, so prompt was his reply that the experts in wireless telegraphy announced that, since it was impossible to send wireless messages so great a distance, Goliah was in their very midst and not on Palgrave Island. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But these forms of optical communication quickly became obsolete as electrical communication in the form of telegraphy, telephony and radio were developed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This 'information flow' thing materialized in the invention of telegraphy, circa 1830, which telegraphs then appeared in railroad (traffic) depots, and then begat 'newspapers' (as we think of them, and as 'wire services'), and so on. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Tesla's inventions and discoveries are all duly recorded—alternating current, wireless telegraphy, radio transmission. ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)

One of the uses of Energon was in wireless telegraphy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A seminal figure in the development of commercial electricity, Nikola Tesla discovered the rotating magnetic field, which provided the basis for alternating current, and invented the Tesla coil, a high-frequency transformer used in early radio transmitters and wireless telegraphy. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

At the time, this was the unsolved problem of wireless telegraphy — as it still is to-day — but Emil Gluck, in his prison cell, mastered it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The following words start with T: treat, tender, telegraphy. ❋ Cooper Renner (2011)

One hundred years ago when telegraphy was the main means of global communication there were many rooms everywhere which housed dozens of telegraph keys and operators. ❋ Frank A. Weil (2011)

He knew, by the ancient telegraphy of smoke-signalling, the message was being conveyed from village to village and tribe to tribe that a labour-recruiter was on the leeward coast. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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