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Example sentences for "electric telegraph"

  • An electric telegraph of this construction was put into operation at Munich, through a distance of 12 miles.

  • Amyot, "who has proposed also an Electric Telegraph, but upon seeing mine he could not restrain his gratification, and with his whole soul he is at work to forward it with all who have influence.

  • For the London daily papers the electric telegraph is "throwing its shadows" before the authentic heralds of "coming events.

  • Out of the two hundred and fifty thousand miles of electric telegraph now in operation or in the course of construction in the world, at least two hundred thousand give the preference to it.

  • From the earliest date, which we can assign to the existence of an electric telegraph, its essential parts have been the same.

  • In 1816 Mr. Ronalds, of Hammersmith, invented an electric telegraph in which the use of frictional electricity was recurred to.

  • Although there was no immediate application of the phenomena of the galvanic current to the purpose, indeed several important discoveries had to be made before an electric telegraph of any value was possible.

  • Shortly after this experiment, Professor Wheatstone and Mr. Cooke laid down the first working electric telegraph on the Great Western Railway, from Paddington to Slough.

  • In the following year, Soemmering exhibited a voltaic-electric telegraph of his own construction, which, however, was open to the objection of there being as many wires as signs or letters of the alphabet.

  • Pan-telegraph, an electric telegraph by means of which a drawing or writing, as an autographic message, may be exactly reproduced at a distant station.

  • Quadruplex system (Electric Telegraph), a system by which four messages, two in each direction, may be sent simultaneously over the wire.

  • A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.


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