Sentence examples for as a telegraph from inspiring English sources

Schmidt worked as a telegraph operator, photographer, and designer until 1898.

Van Horne worked as a telegraph operator on the Illinois Central Railroad.

Some Frankenstein fusion of hawthorn, buddleia and bramble reaches as tall as a telegraph pole.

In the south Alice Springs, founded as a telegraph station in 1870, grew into a small settlement.

Because the schools were still closed, he took a job as a telegraph operator in a remote northern city.

Carnegie said he read from the books "in the intervals that could be snatched from duty" as a telegraph messenger.

Hannah J Davies A typically painstaking PBS doc tackling Thomas Edison's legacy by going back to his boyhood as a telegraph-obsessed homebody.

Although technical factors accounted for Fessenden's determination to design the oscillator as both a telegraph and an echo ranger, from the start nontechnical issues intervened to retard development and exploitation of the latter function.

But he still speaks wistfully of the time when, at 19, he bought a $14 tourist ticket to Australia and ended up working there -- as a farmhand, a telegraph messenger, and a gardener -- for three years.

In 1864 he left the Great Western, and during 1865 66, as director of a telegraph construction company, he superintended the laying of the first two transatlantic cables from England to the United States.

There is a Russian writer who once described vandal states as Genghis Khan with a telegraph.