telegraphy

noun

te·leg·ra·phy tə-ˈle-grə-fē

: the use or operation of a telegraph apparatus or system for communication

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Considering how telegraphy helped Chicago prosper, the city’s movers and shakers had a stake in improving it. —

Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023 Without Morse’s contributions to the development of telegraphy, Joseph Medill would have had less of a city to preside over. —

Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023 England imported gutta-percha from Southeast Asia for undersea telegraphy wires. —

Rebecca Altman, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2022 Such anecdotes add welcome color to the technical explanations of phonetic scripts, typewriters, telegraphy, card-catalogue systems, and computers. —

Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022 Morris gestures toward a better one, by titling each section with a discipline in which Edison distinguished himself: each backward-marching decade is matched to botany, defense, chemistry, magnetism, light, sound, telegraphy, or natural philosophy. —

Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019 In Europe telegraphy largely was added to postal operations as a government responsibility. —

Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 29 Sep. 2019 To show their appreciation, the station agent taught Edison telegraphy. —

Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2019 In 1888, George Safford Parker, a telegraphy instructor, founded the Parker Pen Company there; General Motors opened its plant in 1919. —

Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 19 May 2017 See More

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