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Telegraph (other)
Telegraph is any apparatus or process to convey messages over long distances with no intermediary messenger. Telegraph may also refer to: Related to telegraphy * Electrical telegraph, sends and receives messages via electric signals * Printing telegraph, electrical telegraph that uses plain text instead of code * Optical telegraph, sending visual signals with pivoting shutters in towers * Hydraulic telegraph, based on the displacement of water in pipes, or on container water levels * Engine order telegraph, device on a ship used by the pilot to signal engine speeds Arts and entertainment * Telegraphing (entertainment), giving a clear hint of the meaning or outcome of a dramatic action through acting Music * ''Telegraph'' (album), a 2005 album by Drake Bell (includes the title song) * Telegraphs (band), an English alternative-rock band * "Telegraph" (song), a 1983 single by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark * ''Telegraph Melts'', a 1986 album by Jandek Periodicals * The Teleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telegraph
Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Thus flag semaphore is a method of telegraphy, whereas pigeon post is not. Ancient signalling systems, although sometimes quite extensive and sophisticated as in China, were generally not capable of transmitting arbitrary text messages. Possible messages were fixed and predetermined and such systems are thus not true telegraphs. The earliest true telegraph put into widespread use was the optical telegraph of Claude Chappe, invented in the late 18th century. The system was used extensively in France, and European nations occupied by France, during the Napoleonic era. The electric telegraph started to replace the optical telegraph in the mid-19th century. It was first taken up in Britain in the form of the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph, initially used mostly as an aid to railway signalling. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telegraph City
Telegraph City was an unincorporated town in Calaveras County, California. It lies at an elevation of 653 feet (199 m). First named Grasshopper City when it was started in the early 1860s, it was renamed in the 1870s for its location on the telegraph line between Stockton and Sonora Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Administrative divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is d .... A post office operated here from 1862 to 1894. The town had copper mining nearby, and was the location of a large sheep and cattle ranching operation. The site is now abandoned, though fieldstone walls and foundations remain. References External links * {{authority control Unincorporated communities in California Former settlements in Calaveras County, California 1862 establishments in California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telegraph Road (other)
Telegraph Road may refer to: Streets * Telegraph Road (Los Angeles), in Los Angeles County, California * Telegraph Road (Ventura County, California), partly carrying California State Route 126 * Telegraph Road (Anne Arundel County, Maryland), carrying Maryland Route 170 * Telegraph Road (Michigan), in the Metro Detroit area, carrying U.S. Highway 24 * Telegraph Road (St. Louis County, Missouri), carrying Missouri Route 231 * Telegraph Road (Northern Virginia) State Route 611 in Fairfax County, Virginia is a secondary state highway which traverses the eastern portion of the county. SR 611 provides a major artery for commuters, connecting the Eisenhower Valley section of Alexandria with Lorton and poi ..., carrying State Route 241 and State Route 611 * Old Wire Road (Missouri and Arkansas), historically known as the Telegraph Road Music * ''Telegraph Road'' (album), a 1996 album by Sonny Moorman * "Telegraph Road" (song), a song on the Dire Straits 1982 album ''Love over G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telegraph Hill (other)
A telegraph hill is a hill or other natural elevation that is chosen as part of an optical telegraph system. Telegraph Hill may also refer to: England * A high point in the Haldon Hills, Devon * Telegraph Hill, Dorset, a hill in the Dorset Downs * A hill in the Chalk Downs of Hamphire * Telegraph Hill, Hertfordshire, a nature reserve * Telegraph Hill (ward), an electoral ward in Lewisham, London * Telegraph Hill, Barnet, in Childs Hill, a ward of the London Borough of Barnet * Telegraph Hill, Lewisham, a conservation area in London * Telegraph Hill in Claygate, a suburban village in Surrey * Telegraph Hill, Sussex, a hill of West Sussex United States * Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, a toponym and neighborhood in San Francisco, California * Telegraph Hill (Dukes County, Massachusetts), an elevation in Massachusetts * Telegraph Hill (Hull, Massachusetts), a historic site in Plymouth County * Telegraph Hill (Provincetown, Massachusetts), an elevation in Barnstable County * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telegraph Island
Telegraph Island (also known as ar, جزيرة تليغراف, ''Jazīrat al Maqlab'', and ''Şaghīr'') is located in the Elphinstone Inlet or Khor Ash Sham, the inner inlet of Khasab Bay, less than 400 meters off the shore of the Musandam Governorate, Musandam Peninsula, and less than 500 meters south of much larger but also much lesser known Sham Island, both of which are parts of the Sultanate of Oman. It is 160 meters long, and up to 90 meters wide, yielding an area of 1.1 hectares. The name as "Telegraph" comes from the telegraph-cable repeater station built on the island in 1864. The inlet at the island is a fjord surrounded by high mountains, with notable geology in the rock strata which dip downwards under the immense pressures caused by the Arabian plate, Arabian tectonic plate meeting (and subduction, subducting beneath) the Eurasian plate. In the 19th century, it was the location of a British repeater station used to boost Telegraphy, telegraphic messages along the ''Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telegraph House (Taganrog)
Telegraph House ( Russian: Телеграфный дом) is a two-story building in the city of Taganrog, Rostov region. It is The object of cultural heritage of regional importance (Decision No. 301 of 18.11.92.). At the end of the 19th century in the building was a telegraph station. History The two-story building of the Telegraph House was built in 1859 at the expense of the Greek merchant of the second guild, Argyria Skurich. It is located along Grecheskaya Street 88. Upon completion of the construction, the building was rented to accommodate equipment of the first Taganrog telegraph station. The station was opened on 13 January 1860 and operated on the Berdyansk-Mariupol- Taganrog-Rostov-on-Don line. The merchant class of the city was interested in the telegraph, as it allowed to accelerate the conclusion of trade transactions and receipt of goods. In 1859, a community of Taganrog merchants wrote: "... The increasing development of trade in the port cities of the Azov Sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telegraph House
The Telegraph House is a historic hotel located in Baddeck, Nova Scotia. History The hotel was built in 1861 and soon after housed the office of the first Trans-Oceanic Cable Company. The hotel first came to prominence after Joseph Twichell and Charles Dudley Warner stayed there in 1873. Warner subsequently detailed their stay in his book, '' Baddeck, And That Sort of Thing'' which was published the following year. Warner described the inn as a "very unhotel-like appearing hotel". Having read Warner's book, Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel Gardiner Hubbard stayed at the Telegraph House on their visit to Baddeck in 1885. After returning to his home in Washington, D.C. Bell wrote to Kate Dunlop, the owner of the Telegraph House, telling them that they wished to acquire a cottage for their return the following year. Dunlop put Bell into contact with Arthur McCurdy (father of John Alexander Douglas McCurdy) who helped Bell purchase a local property. Bell's room has been preser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telegraph Canyon Formation
The Telegraph Canyon Formation is a geologic formation in Nevada. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period. See also * List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Nevada * Paleontology in Nevada Paleontology in Nevada refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Nevada. Nevada has a rich fossil record of plants and animal life spanning the past 650 million years of time. The earliest fo ... References * Devonian geology of Nevada Devonian southern paleotemperate deposits {{Devonian-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telegraph Column (Damascus)
The Telegraph Column, located in Damascus, Syria, is a commemorative monument celebrating the completion of the telegraph line between that city and Hajj sites, in the former Ottoman Empire. It was designed by Raimondo D'Aronco. History Monuments such as this and the Jezreel Valley Railway monument in Haifa were designed to commemorate the "charitable works" of Abdul Hamid II for his people; the railway would be used to carry pilgrims to the Hajj and the telegraph would allow rapid communication between the two locations. Description The monument consists of a cast-iron column on stone base adorned with representations of telegraph lines and insulators running along the pole. The notable feature of the monument is the mosque on top of the column, "in the place on the upper part of the capital traditionally reserved for emperors, kings, saints, war heroes and explorers and other great men, a clear statement that a Western model was not always acceptable without fundament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telegraph Plateau
The Telegraph Plateau is a region of the North Atlantic that was supposedly relatively flat and shallow compared to the rest of the ocean away from shore. The term is archaic and no longer used by hydrographers. It was so named because it seemed to be an ideal route for a transatlantic telegraph cable, and was actually used for the first such cable in 1858. The Victorian hydrographers surveying the route failed to notice the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the middle of the route. Discovery and naming The feature was discovered by Matthew Fontaine Maury while producing a bathymetric chart of the ocean in 1853, compiled from sounding data from multiple ships' logs. Maury so named it because he thought it would be an ideal route for a transatlantic telegraph cable, which at the time, was no more than a vague aspiration. His hydrographers confirmed his assessment of the viability of the route using accurate sounders invented by John Mercer Brooke. Brooke's sounder was designed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telegraph Range
The Telegraph Range is a small hill-range located on the Nechako Plateau to the south of Ootsa Lake in the Cariboo Land District of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It was named by George M. Dawson to commemorate the route of the Collins Overland Telegraph Collins may refer to: People Surname Given name * Collins O. Bright (1917–?), Sierra Leonean diplomat * Collins Chabane (1960–2015), South African Minister of Public Service and Administration * Collins Cheboi (born 1987), Kenyan middle- ..., which lay along the range's northeast flank. The range is approximately 750 km2 in area. References Hills of British Columbia Mountain ranges of British Columbia Nechako Country {{BritishColumbia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telegraph Peak (Lander County, Nevada)
Telegraph Peak is a summit in the U.S. state of Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. N .... The elevation is . Telegraph Peak was named in commemoration of the first transcontinental telegraph. References Mountains of Lander County, Nevada {{LanderCountyNV-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
