0 (especially in the past) a method of sending and receiving messages by electrical or radio signals, or the special equipment used for this purpose: --
The news came by telegraph.
1 to send a message to someone using the telegraph system: --
2 to communicate a message or impression to someone, or make it clear what you are going to do, often by the way you act: --
3 a method of sending and receiving messages by electric signals that was used in the past, or the equipment used to do this --
4 in the past, the method of sending or receiving messages by electrical or radio signals --
Beginning with telegraph lines, the construction of connective systems began to become decoupled from massive civil engineering projects.
This paper traces various wind paths, from natural casuarinas to telegraph wires.
For example, nationalisation of the telegraph system (in 1870) and the telephone system (in 1912) may have stymied efficiency by removing the pressure of competition.
With the minor exception of the telegraph, the first electronic means of communication involved the spoken rather than the written word.
However, even if a quarter of the capacity of the multiplex telegraph was to be used, substantial reductions in tariffs across the board were imperative.
Officials unveiled new monuments, parks, libraries, schools, public lighting, telegraph and telephone lines, pavilions and municipal palaces.
It is remarkable that so many symmetries are shared by the continuous and discrete versions of the telegraph equation.
The creation of revolutionary broadsheets was spurred by lower telegraph, post, and press rates, and proscription often led to wider circulation.
