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Wireless telegraphy

noun
1.
Telegraphy that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire.  Synonyms: radiotelegraph, radiotelegraphy.
2.
The use of radio to send telegraphic messages (usually by Morse code).  Synonyms: radiotelegraph, radiotelegraphy, wireless telegraph.






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"Wireless telegraphy" Quotes from Famous Books



... repeat, in connection with these startling performances, that those who speak of audible or visible signals, of telegraphy and wireless telegraphy, of expedients, trickery or deceit, are speaking of what they do not know and of what they have not seen? There is but one reply to be made to any one who honestly ...
— The Unknown Guest • Maurice Maeterlinck

... 1900 as the site of a station for the purpose of establishing communication by wireless telegraphy with America, Mr. Marconi being assisted at that time by Professor Fleming, of London. No such distance had hitherto been attempted, and the employment of very powerful magnetic waves was necessary. These were obtained, Mr. Marconi has himself told us, ...
— The Cornwall Coast • Arthur L. Salmon

... most interesting discoveries of the present day will receive an added confirmation and explanation in the conception of the Aether medium to be advanced. I refer to the system of Wireless Telegraphy that has been so successfully developed by Signor Marconi, and I premise that new light will be thrown on that discovery by the suggested ...
— Aether and Gravitation • William George Hooper

... Wireless telegraphy, as a science, has been known but a comparatively short time. The laws underlying it have been in the universe perhaps, or undoubtedly, always. It is only lately that the mind of man has been able to apprehend them, and has been able to construct instruments in accordance ...
— The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit • Ralph Waldo Trine

... remainder of the season. My great regret was that I could not be with them. I knew that I had men of experience and ability in Davis and Wild, and felt that the work entrusted to them was in the best of hands. Through the medium of wireless telegraphy I hoped to keep in touch with the Macquarie Island party, the Western Base,** and the ship ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson



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