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Telegraph key   /tˈɛləgrˌæf ki/   Listen
Telegraph key

noun
1.
Key consisting of a lever that sends a telegraph signal when it is depressed and the circuit is closed.





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"Telegraph key" Quotes from Famous Books



... Watkins walked deliberately to the railroad map which hung on the wall and scanned it. Then he resumed his seat, laid his pipe down, fixed his eyes on the girl's face, and began to question her. At the same time his right hand, with which he had held the pipe, found its way to the telegraph key. None but an expert could have distinguished any change in the clicking of the instrument, which had been almost incessant; but Watkins had "called" the head office on the Missouri. In two minutes the "sounder" rattled out ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 • Various


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