telegraph

     

Telegraphy (from the Greek wors tele (τηλε) = far and graphein (γραφειν) = write) is the long-distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters. Radiotelegraphy or wireless telegraphy transmits messages using radio. Telegraphy includes recent forms of data transmission such as fax, email, and computer networks in general.

Trivia about telegraph

  • The "T" in TASS, an agency founded in the Soviet Union in 1925, stands for this
  • When this was explained to Chief Sho-kup, he gave it a Shoshone name that means "wire rope express"
  • When East & West were linked by this in October, 1861, the days of the Pony Express were numbered
  • In 1849 Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian received the first weather report via this new invention
  • Around 1846 Sarah Bagley became the first female "operator" of this device
  • With the 1866 remodeling of offices, Andrew Johnson installed a room for this communications device
  • "The Victorian Internet" is a book about pioneers of this communication device
  • Reflecting the company's activities at its founding in 1885, it was the second "T" in AT&T
  • In the 1870s Edison battled Western Union over the patent on the quadruplex type of this device
  • In 1837 Brits Cooke & Wheatstone designed an electric one; later that year, an American painter perfected it
  • This word for a device popularized in the 1800s can mean to signal your plans unintentionally

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