Front | telegraph |
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Pron | ['telɪɡræf] |
Back | 【TELEGRAPH】 Mother sent me a message by telegraph that she would arrive home by afternoon plane. 妈妈打一个电报给我说她将坐下午的飞机回家。 【重点词汇】 telegraph n. 电报 |
Vocab | telegraphapparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code)
Forget about the internet! Before even the telephone was invented, the telegraph — a device used to communicate via electronic signals — was the main mode of communicating long distance. We've come a long way! The telegraph is an outdated form of communication as far as sending long-distance messages goes. It uses an electric signal broken to create a code that then transmits over a wire and translates into a message. Alexander Graham Bell started tinkering with the telegraph and ended up inventing the first "harmonic telegraph" to transmit sound through a wire — which led to the birth of the modern telephone. All forms of 'telegraph' will appear on average once every 283 pages. telegraph telegraphic telegraphically |
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