Sentence examples for engine telegraph from inspiring English sources

"Finished With Engine," reads the white dial of the brass engine telegraph in the wheelhouse of the double-ended M/V Islander ferry.

But much remains, ranging from the beautiful (the engine telegraph manufactured by Chas. J. Henschel & Company Inc., Amesbury, Mass). to the mundane (stacks of timetables, piles of Martha's Vineyard Best Read Guide and more orange life jackets than can be counted).

Transformative inventions the printing press, steam engine, telegraph, automobile, airplane, radio and television, computer and Internet and so on require constant investment.

The bridges of some modern vessels are now more likely to contain computer screens and joysticks than engine telegraphs and a giant ship's wheel.

The 2000 expedition by RMS Titanic Inc. carried out 28 dives during which over 800 artefacts were recovered, including the ship's engine telegraphs, perfume vials and watertight door gears.

Then the engine room telegraph rang and ropes were cast off, and within minutes you were surging full steam ahead towards the hills of Argyll or the mountains of Arran.

The Stoniers company, still prospering today, supplied 50,000 pieces of glass and crockery to the ship and and the engine room telegraph was built by J W Ray of Liverpool.

But just as with past technological inflection points — whether the steam engine, the telegraph, the computer or even industrial robots — technology will always give as much as it takes, as it always has.