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wireless telegraphy
noun
: telegraphy carried on by radio waves and without connecting wires
called also wireless telegraph
Examples of wireless telegraphy in a Sentence
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Julie Scelfo, Glamour, 9 Oct. 2017
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Word History
First Known Use
1898, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of wireless telegraphy was
in 1898
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“Wireless telegraphy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wireless%20telegraphy. Accessed 18 Aug. 2024.
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wireless telegraphy
noun
: telegraphy carried on by radio waves and without connecting wires
called also wireless telegraph
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