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Wireless telephone   /wˈaɪrlɪs tˈɛləfˌoʊn/   Listen
Wireless telephone

noun
1.
Telephony that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire.  Synonyms: radiotelephone, radiotelephony.
2.
A telephone that communicates by radio waves rather than along cables.  Synonyms: radiophone, radiotelephone.






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"Wireless telephone" Quotes from Famous Books



... upon us, whether in the form of telepathy, or of healing treatment, or in any other way; and it is through this channel also that thought currents, not specially directed towards ourselves, nevertheless affect us, just as the first wireless telephone message sent on September 29, 1915, from the office of the American Telephone Company in New York, and directed to San Francisco, was simultaneously heard at San Diego, at Darien in Panama, and even as far away as Pearl Island, Honolulu, in ...
— The Law and the Word • Thomas Troward

... by William Marconi, at Bologna, Italy, in 1896, and in his first experiments he sent dot and dash signals to a distance of 200 or 300 feet. The wireless telephone was invented by the author of this book at Narberth, Penn., in 1899, and in his first experiments the human voice was transmitted to a distance of ...
— The Radio Amateur's Hand Book • A. Frederick Collins

... city Miss Chuff, Quimbleton and Bleak proceeded toward the great building where the Pan-Antis had their headquarters. They had left Mrs. Bleak, the children and the horse at a quiet soda-fountain in the suburbs. After repeated application over the wireless telephone, the terrible Bishop—the Prohibishop, as Quimbleton called him—had agreed to grant them an audience, and had accorded them safe-conduct through the chuff troops. Even so, their progress was difficult. ...
— In the Sweet Dry and Dry • Christopher Morley



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