Signaling by the two-arm semaphore is the most rapid method of sending spelled-out messages.
For use with General Service Code or semaphore hand flags.
On an electric road in case a car approaches a semaphore set at "danger," what must the crew of the car do?
This completes a local circuit which throws the semaphore arm to the "danger" position, at the same time giving the dispatcher a distinctive buzz in his ear, which informs him that the arm has actually moved to this position.
Each semaphore is located adjacent to a telephone booth in which is also placed the restoring lever, by means of which the semaphore is set in the "clear" position by the crew of the car which has been signaled.
On a steam road, the operators who give the train crews their orders and manipulate the semaphore signals are located at regular intervals in the different waystations.
Swooping past the new semaphore tower, and skimming above the lofty chimneys of the electric light station, the "Meteor" shaped a course towards the Town Hall clock tower.
But as the nurse had no idea thatsemaphore meant signaling messages, she was entirely unsuspicious.
Now that I have finished my work, may I go out into the garden and practice my semaphore for an hour before lunch?
With semaphore flags--just as we all used to do in the Scouts.
On telegraphic advice the arm of the semaphore rattles down.
On receipt of certain advices he orders the arm of the semaphore to be thrown up against us.
When the first signal came from the semaphore station a British schooner which was in the harbor put to sea.
It was nearly five o'clock in the afternoon of that lucky Friday, when the semaphoreby the lighthouse in Morro Castle signaled to the people of Havana that a fleet had been sighted.
Finally a certain semaphore blade drops, we cross over to the important main line and begin pulling on a sharp curve, across the river, clear of the station with its confusion, through and past the city to a busy division yard.
Some roads have experimented with other forms of indicators--disks of one sort or another, semaphore blades that turn upwards rather than drop.
One day the news came by semaphore that a large ship had been wrecked just off the lighthouse, while coming into Boston harbor.
Although the telegraph had been established in '44, it had not been brought from Nova Scotia to Boston, and we had only the semaphore to use for signaling.
Turning for a moment to the telegraph-station, I saw Hartley trying to semaphore something from the top corner.
And then you remember that the friendly raised arm of the block semaphore has said "yes.
Glasses, semaphore flags, that sun blinker you had.
I told you I threw away your semaphore flags, your blinker--everything.
For example: The semaphore sign for N consists of both arms pointing downwards at an angle of 90 degrees ^.
Illustration: These hieroglyphics contain a secret message which can be easily read by those who know the semaphore signalling code.
The greeting was sent to the bridge to be flung into the air on the illuminated semaphore signals at five minutes to midnight.
Rare is it that you do not see a semaphore or an ardois combination flashing.
Possibly the curious Semaphore or Telegraph Plants, whose leaflets suddenly and without any obvious reason move with a jerk through an angle of several degrees, may also be protected from animals by this uncanny and unusual behaviour.
I thought quietly for a moment, then asked the poacher whether there was a guard at the semaphore of Saint-Yssel.
A week ago a dreadful creature came here to see Buckhurst; they went across the moor toward the semaphore and stood for a long while looking at the cruiser which is anchored off Groix.
I'll sell you the whole cursedsemaphore for a hundred more!
The semaphore on the mountain of the Pigeonnier was not visible; but across the bridge, where the Gunstett highway spanned the Sauer, gray masses of the Niederwald loomed through the rain.
I think," said I, "that we had better try to do something at the semaphoreif we are going to stop that train in time.
She ought to leave before the Fer-de-Lance sights the semaphore and reads the signal to land in force.
Far across the hilly moorland the white semaphoreglistened like a gull's wing--too far for me to see the balls and cones hoisted or the bright signals glimmering along the halyards as I followed a trodden path winding south through the gorse.
He went away, slamming and locking the door; and I heard Mornac complaining that the signals had gone out on the semaphore and that there was more treachery abroad.
Above the Col du Pigeonnier the semaphore still glistened, but its signals now travelled eastward, and strange flags fluttered on its invisible halliards.
My signal was still set; the white arm of the semaphore glistened like silver against a brilliant sky of sapphire.
The shining arm of the semaphore fell to a horizontal position and remained rigid; down came the signal flags, up went a red globe and two cones.
Presently the lieutenant appeared in the open gangway, and began to signal back by semaphore to the Dauntless.
The two boys waited very patiently for about half an hour, when at length the semaphore on the cruiser's bridge began to move.
He moved his arms, signalling by semaphore to Lieutenant Koerner standing on the conning-tower platform.
Presently the whole line came to a stop, and Mark saw that the semaphore on the Atreus was at work, questioning him.
Mark repeated the message, doing it much quicker then the semaphore had done.
There was a pause; then again the semaphore was worked, and Darby read the message: You will proceed at once to the position marked Z on your chart, and begin operations, working in parallels from N.
Already he had hoisted a flag signifying "I want to speak to you," and Darby was busy fashioning a pair ofsemaphore flags.
Keep your eye on the light cruiser yonder," ordered the skipper, "and be ready to take down her semaphore message when she starts signallin'.
From a little beyond La Madrague take the road leading up to a house with a pepper-box turret, whence the continuation leads up to the semaphore or signal-station, on the highest point of the isthmus, 407 ft.
Upon one occasion, when the British army were fighting in Spain, intelligence was every day feverishly expected from Wellington through the medium of the semaphore at the Admiralty.
As the car dwindled to a punt, a match-box, and finally a postage stamp, I heard the creak and swish of the semaphore behind me on the roof of the station.
He threw up his arm, semaphore fashion, first to this point of the compass and then to that, and traffic halted instantly.
Send and receive the alphabet of the General Service or Semaphore Code.
The semaphore code shown in the accompanying picture may also be employed by a person using two flags.
The semaphorecode is not adapted to as many uses as is the general service code, but for quick signalling over comparatively short distances, it is preferable in every way.
Send and receive messages in the General Service or the Semaphore Code at the rate of sixteen and thirty letters a minute respectively.
It was wrapped up in a piece of the Marseilles Semaphore newspaper.
A thunderous tremolo, dominating the distant band music, thrilled on the still air, and the extended arm of the station semaphore with its two dangling lanterns wagged twice.
The boasted semaphorehad failed this time, at all events.
The arms of the semaphoreat the settlement were, in fact, gesticulating with comical vehemence.
This semaphore communicated with the two wings of the prison--Eaglehawk Neck and the Coal Mines--by sending a line of signals right across the peninsula.
It is this ultimate and completing part of the action which the Hawaiian woman adopts as her semaphore of assent.
The mail boats anchored in the open roadstead; passengers landed at the Semaphore jetty, cargo being placed in barges and towed up the river to Port Adelaide.
About the beginning of 1882, however, a company was formed, which acquired a large frontage to the sea from the boundaries of the Semaphore northwards to the mouth of the Port River.
