Officers when they lay down for a few hours' sleep had their telephones at their elbow, ready as firemen to answer the call.
The telephones run everywhere, and observing stations on the highest peaks enable Italian howitzers to make sure of their aim.
I am not quite sure whether the Italians do not trust too much to their telephones and will not regret the absence of good flag signalers.
Telephones were quite efficient in temperatures of 40 degrees and more below zero.
Certain telephones and equipment sufficient for our needs were presented to us in 1910 by the staff of the National Telephone Co.
We used the telephones almost daily for taking time, and Simpson used to stand inside the hut at the sidereal clock whilst I took astronomical observations outside in the cold.
The trunk telephones all come into the Post Office exchange up in Carter Lane.
Every moment over the telephones came news from Manchester, each record more disastrous than the last.
The difficulty of maintaining communications within the ships was stupendous; telephones were inaudible in the terrible din; voice-pipes were severed; mechanical indicators worked indifferently.
The telegraphs and telephones to the north were constantly at work, and survivors of a destroyer who had landed at St. Abb’s, north of Berwick, gave thrilling and terrible narratives.
Then Yvette began a rapid call on the wireless set with which the Mohawk was fitted and placed the head-telephones over her ears.
The telephones were on his ears, and almost next second he heard the answering signal.
There were also on the table two headtelephones connected by wires to the horn of what looked like a large phonograph.
With telephonesat their ears they listened intently.
The Government intends to put the telephones under control of the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs.
When the Telephone Exchange was occupied by the yunkers Colonel Polkovnikov ordered the telephones to Smolny disconnected, but I protested, and the telephones were kept going.
The telephoneswere all working; when you called Central, shooting could be plainly heard over the wire.
Control and working of telephones and telegraphs allotted to the railway service.
Since the expiration of the Bell patents many smaller companies have sprung up, and the number of telephones in use has more than doubled in the last five years.
If the local telephones were owned by the city and only the interurban lines managed by the imperial government, the service would respond more quickly to the needs of the community.
In Tokyo, for instance, those who want to install telephones have to wait until someone discontinues his 'phone or is willing to sell it, and a bonus is often demanded.
The sharper in disgust turns to other fields where there are no telephones over which to notify his prospective victims of his game.
Now, wouldn't it be just beautiful if we had telephonesto heaven!
Our aeroplanes and our motor-cars and our telephones will no doubt be carefully displayed in a neglected cellar of their museums.
The men at the telephones were dead beat, but cool and collected.
Sometimes there were minutes when only a wild buzzing could be heard and the men at the telephones tried to make the buzzing intelligible.
The room with its acoustic tubes and its vibrations from the telephones was like the bridge of a vessel at the moment of clearing for action.
The telephones were ringing incessantly; the surgeons in coarse aprons were going from one side to the other, working rapidly; human life was submitted to savage proceedings with roughness and celerity.
There are no trolleys in this neck of the woods, and no telephones and no police.
The government introduced a 5% tax on electricity and telephones and doubled the general consumption tax, which caused a small rise in the inflation rate.
Telephones and telegraphs were following fast on the advance, connecting every department, whether stationary or still on the move.
He had seen Scudder and told him what he wanted; and it seems that Scudder got active with one of thesetelephones as soon as he left.
I telephones for the doctor, and when he comes Marcella says to me: 'Help me hold the poor dear while the doctor fixes his mouth.
The railway service, and to a great extent the steamship service, stopped; so also the telephones and the supply of electric light.
Even as far back as 1896, when I paid my first visit to Finland, and when telephones were barely in general use in England, Suomi was ahead of us.
The reason for this delay in the communication of orders was that our telephoneswere in a state of transition.
Here also was Serjeant Wilbur and that very hard working body of men the Signallers, "strafed" by everybody when telephones went wrong, and seldom praised during months and months without a mishap.
Then the wires of the field-telephones and telegraphs on their elegantly slim bamboos were running alongside us.
Telephones are the only instruments of which I have observed the use in the immediate neighborhood of French batteries.
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