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wireless telegraph

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[wahyuhr-lis tel-i-graf] / ˈwaɪər lɪs ˈtɛl ɪˌgræf /

noun

wireless telegraphs plural
  1. formerly, a method of sending telegrams by radio signals rather than by wires or cables.


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The Marconi room holds the ship’s radio — a Marconi wireless telegraph machine — which broadcast the Titanic’s increasingly frantic distress signals after the ocean liner hit an iceberg.

From Seattle Times Aug. 29, 2023

Broadcast distress calls via wireless telegraph: “Carferry 18 is sinking midlake - help - help”

From Washington Times Sep. 12, 2020

Marconi wanted to use these waves to develop a wireless telegraph system.

From Nature Jul. 19, 2016

An English clockmaker, John Harrison, finally figured it out, and his marine chronometer, along with the wireless telegraph later, was the first instrument to reliably determine longitude.

From Washington Post Mar. 12, 2015

Through the miracle of the wireless telegraph, news of the whirlwind romance between Camilla Cranston and Lord Peter Henslowe reached two continents before we docked.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

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