Alexander Graham Bell

It is not, of course, complete yet - but some sentences were understood this afternoon... I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem - and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas - and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

Scottish Inventor

James Gleick

When people say that the Internet is going to make us all geniuses, that was said about the telegraph. On the other hand, when they say the Internet is going to make us stupid, that also was said about the telegraph.

American Author

Jules Verne

Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?

French Author

Noam Chomsky

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

American Activist

Ted Allen

I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.

American Entertainer

Emily Greene Balch

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

American Educator

Debbie Millman

We create constructs to understand ourselves, the way we look, how we feel, what we believe - and we telegraph that 'branding' to the world.

American Writer

Friedrich Nietzsche

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

German Philosopher

John Burroughs

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.

Edmund Phelps

I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.

American Economist

Understanding 'telegraph' needs historical context, as it's from an era before phones and internet.

Historical Context

'Telegraph' often relates to Morse code, an early form of digital communication.

Morse Code

Today, 'telegraph' is obsolete; knowing this prevents its incorrect modern use.

Obsolete Technology

Using 'telegraph' as a verb implies urgency or quick action, like the technology's purpose.

Action Speed

The verb form is less common and dated, signaling an action from the past.

Historical Verb Use

In sports, 'telegraph' indicates giving hints to opponents, usually by accident.

Sports Strategy

'Telegraphing' can refer to any clear signal of intentions, not just physical movements.

Non-Physical Signals

The noun can mean companies that provided telegram services, which are now historic.

Company Reference

Working for a 'telegraph' hinted at roles like operator or messenger, which no longer exist.

Historical Job Roles

 Telegraph in the UK a glass of red wine a day could help prevent breast cancer so you can find this paper and what you find is it is a real piece of science it's a description of the changes in the behavior of one enzyme when you drip a chemical extracted from some red grape skin onto some cancer cells in a dish on

Battling bad science -...

 to pay those two and a half million dollars, and later, more for the telegraph, and the radio transmitter, and the television, and eventually the mainframe. And that meant they were market based, or they were government owned, depending on what kind of system they were in. And this characterized and anchored

Yochai Benkler:...

 Now, this isn't just a contemporaneous question. This is something we've faced several times over the last few centuries. When the telegraph came along, it was clear that it was going to globalize the news industry. What would this lead to? Well, obviously, it would lead to world peace.

Clay Shirky: How the...

 I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or something. But this guy named Otto Rohwedder invented sliced bread, and he focused, like most inventors did, on the patent part and the making part. And the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this --

How to get your ideas to...

 of the movements of the birds I really love birds I love watching birds filming birds photographing birds and in this particular clip notice how much it looks like a musical score the telegraph lines being ledger lines and the birds like notes on a piano roll so it seemed like

When nature, sound and...

 the descriptive words within suggest the image of an aerial view of the Eiffel Tower. They give tribute to electromagnetic waves of the telegraph, a new form of communication at the time. Undoubtedly, the deeply layered artistic expressions in Apollinaire's calligrams

The poet who painted...

 telegraph poles I like to take in as much of where I'm going on what's in front of me as I can it can take time and reflect on life could be an old lamppost a finger-posts or directional sign we need to just take a step back and just go round around about twice

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 It's hard to imagine life without a weather service, but before modern weather forecasting, we had no commercial air travel, it was common for ships to be lost at sea, and a single storm could produce a food shortage. Once we had radio and telegraph networks,

We need to track the...

 telephone and telegraph company were thinking wait a minute why are NASA a space organization messing around with telecommunications satellites this is our job so they in their labs had been working on a project called TSX which

How Do Satellites Help...

 in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.

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