wireless telegraphy
noun
: telegraphy carried on by radio waves and without connecting wires
called also wireless telegraph
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Since 1901, Nobel Prizes in sciences have been awarded for breakthroughs that reshaped the world—ranging from uncovering the unseen, like quantum physics, to tackling infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and facilitating global communication with wireless telegraphy.
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Gerui Wang, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
In response, Germans seized upon a new technology with the potential to undermine the entire nineteenth-century international communications system of submarine cables and news agencies: wireless telegraphy, which sent electrical impulses through the air to convey information in Morse code.
—Heidi Tworek, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2019
His main rival in this area was Guglielmo Marconi, who was giving radio demonstrations and developing wireless telegraphy.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Aug. 2020
One Japanese Communications Officer Changed the World Forever In the run-up to World War II, wireless telegraphy was the most effective and efficient way for far-away nations to communicate.
—Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2018
Columbus may have been daring to cross an ocean four centuries before the invention of wireless telegraphy, but his ideas about conquering land and people were reprehensible and immoral.
—Julie Scelfo, Glamour, 9 Oct. 2017
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Gerui Wang, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
In response, Germans seized upon a new technology with the potential to undermine the entire nineteenth-century international communications system of submarine cables and news agencies: wireless telegraphy, which sent electrical impulses through the air to convey information in Morse code.
—Heidi Tworek, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2019
His main rival in this area was Guglielmo Marconi, who was giving radio demonstrations and developing wireless telegraphy.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Aug. 2020
One Japanese Communications Officer Changed the World Forever In the run-up to World War II, wireless telegraphy was the most effective and efficient way for far-away nations to communicate.
—Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2018
Columbus may have been daring to cross an ocean four centuries before the invention of wireless telegraphy, but his ideas about conquering land and people were reprehensible and immoral.
—Julie Scelfo, Glamour, 9 Oct. 2017
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“Wireless telegraphy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wireless%20telegraphy. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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