wireless telegraph

American  

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

noun

plural

wireless telegraphs

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

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Other Word Forms

• wireless telegrapher noun
• wireless telegraphic adjective
• wireless telegraphist noun
• wireless telegraphy noun

Example Sentences

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 Washington Times • Aug. 29, 2023

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

As inventor of the wireless telegraph, Guglielmo Marconi was a central figure in the development of twentieth-century communications.

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