Crossword-Solution: TELEGRAPH
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Telegraph | n. | An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action. |
| Telegraph | v. t. | To convey or announce by telegraph. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “TELEGRAPH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Make known in advance | 1 answer |
| message sending apparatus | 1 answer |
| Wire sender | 1 answer |
| TELEGRAM agency | 1 answer |
| Signal one's punches | 1 answer |
| Morse's child | 1 answer |
| Morse code device | 1 answer |
| Device for transmitting information over distance | 1 answer |
| Old communication system | 2 answers |
| SEND message | 2 answers |
| One way to get the message across | 4 answers |
| Dotted line? | 4 answers |
| DAILY BRITISH BROADSHEET NEWSPAPER | 11 answers |
| Wire | 24 answers |
| CABLE ___ | 27 answers |
| Get in Touch | 33 answers |
| COMMUNICATION medium | 48 answers |
| Signal | 75 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with TELEGRAPH (5)
Yet the next day there was nothing of this in the papers except a little note in the _Daily Telegraph_, and the world went in ignorance of one of the gravest dangers that ever threatened the human race.
Histotical note: this was originally a unit of telegraph signalling speed, set at one pulse per second.
Coming up from Laramie, the old man had told them that he was in Brownsville, Nebraska, when the first telegraph wires were put across the Missouri River, and that the first message that ever crossed the river was “Westward the course of Empire takes its way.” He had been in the room when the instrument began to click, and all the men there had, without thinking what they were doing, taken off their hats, waiting bareheaded to hear the message translated.
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When he went to Budapest he got a job in the Central Telegraph Office, and one evening in 1882, as he was sitting on a bench in the City Park he had an inspiration which ultimately led to the solution of the problem.
Quotes with TELEGRAPH (3)
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Trying to get more learning out of the present system is like trying to get the Pony Express to compete with the telegraph by breeding faster ponies.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, WP.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1969–2015).