No fact in electricity seems more marvelous than that the thousands of messages flashing along the wires overhead are likewise traveling through the ground beneath.
Telegraphy is the process of transmitting messages from place to place by means of an electric current.
In actual practice messages are not ordinarily sent long distances over a direct line, but are automatically transferred to new lines at definite points.
To both boys came frequent messages and gifts from Grandpa, Grandma, and Aunt Louisa.
The child was so constantly the companion of father and mother, that by speech rather than written word, their messages were given.
Domitian, being defeated by the Marcomani, took to flight and by hastily sending messages to Decebalus, king of the Dacians, induced him to make a truce with him.
They then sent messages back and forth to each other and finally held a conference together at which no one else was present and made a mutual agreement,--against Nero, as it was thought.
At midnight he had not telephoned in reply to the messages she had left requesting him to call her.
There she quite unexpectedly met someone who had recently come from India, and who had brought backmessages of remembrance and affection from a girl who my friend had no idea was in India at that time.
You do not know, but I know, as I think do Bes and Karema, since the one received the messages which the other sent.
At least I remember that I sent you certain messages in answer to a prayer for help that reached me, here in my darkness.
For Karema, too, there were messages from the holy Tanofir of the same meaning, saying that unless we appeared within a moon of their receipt, all was lost.
They uttered “the burning messagesof prophecy by the stammering lips of infants.
Through space the wireless messages clicked, but silence was the only answer.
As they neared the place they saw by a sign on the temporary wooden building that it was a telegraph office, and also one where wireless messages could be received and sent.
At eight o'clock the English force was at work receiving the noon messages from London.
It is the transfer station of the Atlantic Cable Company, where it exchanges messages with the Western Union.
His numerous messages to his legislature and letters to his officers urging them to decisive action manifested great industry, clearness of perception, firmness of purpose and patriotic zeal.
He anticipated the future wants of the rising and expanding Republic and proposed in his annual and special messages to Congress wise and politic measures to meet them.
There really was only one telegraphic novelty to be found in the States, and that was an instrument by Delany--a multiplex instrument by which six messages could be sent in one or other direction at the same time.
Supposing any one of us wanted a telephone at Buffalo, the company will supply it under a guarantee to pay for a minimum of 500 messages per annum.
At frequent intervals messages go from one country to the other across the ocean, carried through fog, unaffected by the winds, and following the curvature of the earth, without the aid of wires.
The Marconi station at Glacé Bay, Cape Breton, is now receiving messages for cableless transmission to England at the rate of ten cents a word--newspaper matter at five cents a word.
To handle the great number of spoken messages that are sent over the telephone wires of a great city it is necessary to divide the territory into districts, which vary in size according to the number of subscribers in them.
It is the perfection of the devices for connecting one subscriber with another, and for despatching the vast number of messages and calls at "central," that make modern telephony possible.
The long-distance talk between ship and shore continued at intervals, the recording instrument writing the messages down so that any one who understood the Morse code could read.
It was shortly afterward, while the royal yacht was in Cowes Bay, that one hundred and fifty messages between the then Prince of Wales and his royal mother at Osborne House were exchanged, most of them of a very private nature.
Leonidas had two kinsmen in the camp whom he tried to save by giving them messages and letters to Sparta.
This house has five gates, through which messages from the outside world can get to me.
Messages flew hither and thither, carried by telegraph and by horseback messengers, and many a detail was completed only to be totally altered at the last moment.
He must see her; he would see her; and so for the next half hour Flora was the bearer of written messages to and from Maddy's room; messages of earnest entreaty on the one hand, and of firm denial on the other.
She did not cry while he was there, but her voice was strange and hoarse as she gave him messages for Lucy Atherstone; and all that day her face was white and sad, as are the faces of those who come back from burying their dead.
Loving messages he sent to her, and her tears were dried when she heard from Guy how greatly he was beloved by the pale occupants of the beds of pain, and how much he was doing to relieve their anguish.
We explained to the door-keepers that we had just arrived from China, and brought messages of great urgency.
At first during his illness he had worried about the farm, sending messages to Duncan much more than he had done during the days when he was shut behind the green baize door.
He was unable to trace the fine distinction in veracity between describing a perfectly fictitious operation performed by oneself, and in recounting the messages given by the screaming gulls, the whining winds on Lashnagar.
And the man who brought down lightning from the clouds and imprisoned it in a slender wire so that it lights our homes, draws our traffic across the land and carries our messages under the sea; what did he earn?
And what of the man who showed us how to hurl our messages thousands of miles through space without the aid of wire?
Spending Sunday at court, Columbus departed on Monday, March 11, having first dispatched messages to the King and Queen of Spain.
This officer on arriving at Cadiz had sent to the Court some boastful messages about his golden lading, which were not confirmed when in December the sober dispatch of the Adelantado, which Nino had kept back, came to be read.
Reasons of this kind made it imperative that the newly arrived ships should be returned without delay, and with such reassuring messages and returns as could be furnished.
The Senate at one time objected to my communicating with them in printing, preferring the expensive, foolish, and laborious practice of writing out the messages by hand.
At the opening of each session he addresses a regular message to the legislature, and from time to time submits special messages upon various subjects.
He furnishes copies of records and papers kept in his office, impressed with the seal of his department, and authenticates all proclamations and messages of the President.
For a time, however, the apprehensions thus excited were allayed by several pacific messages from the Indian nations deeper in the interior, who sent parties of runners with assurances of a desire for peace.
It was the issuing of an appeal to the inhabitants of Tryon County, signed by Sir John Johnson, Colonel Claus, and Colonel John Butler, similar in its tenor to the verbal and written messages of St. Leger to Colonel Gansevoort.
He sent me several messages to beg my pardon for the trouble he thought he gave me.
I have, likewise, found that mean instruments were officiously employed to disturb the minds of the Indians, to interrupt the ordinary discharge of my duties, and prevent their receiving messages they had long since expected from me.
If it did not answer in conveying messages across so narrow a strip of water, was it likely to be utilized for Transatlantic telegraphy?
Some idea of the celerity with which messages were sent may be gained from the fact that it took only two minutes to reproduce in Paris a sign given in Lille at a distance of 140 miles.
He generally brought Fessler some little presents or messages from his friends at Schwaechat.
Oh, I contrived to pick upmessages within a short radius.
In this way one could send several messages at once, each message being toned to a different pitch.
By tuning the springs of the receivers to the same pitch with the transmitters and running a wire between them equipped with signalling keys and a battery, Bell reasoned he could send as many messages at one time as there were pitches.
Messages and messages and messages," he murmured wearily.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "messages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
