telegraphy
[tuh-leg-ruh-fee]
- the art or practice of constructing or operating telegraphs.
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Origin of telegraphy
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Examples from the Web for telegraphy
Contemporary Examples
The newspaper column as we kno it is an artifact of telegraphy.
Historical Examples
A woodpecker's telegraphy broke the quiet like a volley of pistol shots.
The Gentleman From IndianaBooth Tarkington
And in 1869 Lowestoft was not much more than a village, and telegraphy was in its infancy.
Edward FitzGerald and "Posh"James Blyth
In the age of telegraphy, that disaster would have been averted.
William Pitt and the Great WarJohn Holland Rose
Locomotives and telegraphy are mere snails compared to thought.
The Iron HorseR.M. Ballantyne
But had the last word in telegraphy been spoken, when it was invented?
Historic OdditiesSabine Baring-Gould
telegraphy
- a system of telecommunications involving any process providing reproduction at a distance of written, printed, or pictorial matterSee also facsimile (def. 2)
- the skill or process of operating a telegraph
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