For most of the war, the Army's primary methods of communication were signal dispatch (employing runners, messengers on horseback, dogs, and carrier pigeons), visual signalling, telegraph, and telephone.
In 1825 he invented a cord-making machine, followed by a steam carriage, a corn sheller, a signal telegraph, a fire alarm and a revolving rifle (which he sold to Col. Samuel Colt for $100).
Cash joined British Rail in 1978, thinking he was going to be a porter, but instead became a junior railwayman in the signal and telegraph department, working on the track looking after signals on the southern end of the West Coast line.
Edwards, like other former employees of China's state-media companies, felt that the vast majority of his work was about domestic signalling, or telegraphing messages that demonstrated loyalty to the party line in order to curry favour with senior officials.
Mr. Howard's pedagogy, unorthodox in its day, entailed a kinesthetic approach, in which dancers were taught to rely less on external feedback from the mirror and more on the minute internal signals that telegraph the position of the head, limbs and torso in space.
The geographic distinctions of time and space, first chipped away at by smoke signals, and telegraph and telephone and radio and TV, are now entirely extinguished by the hand-held and instantaneous presence of everyone in view of everyone else.
The Royal Engineers Signal Service, formed in 1912, was given responsibility for communications that included signal dispatch, telegraph, telephone and later wireless communications, from army headquarters to brigade and down to battery level for the artillery.
They declaim, from the height of aesthetic authority: "The shoe is everything!" "She's genius!" "You're the bomb!" Because to flatter someone means that you get their look, that you're in on the signals being telegraphed.
Is it signaling, like telegraphs?
Whatever the nature of these relationships really are, the signals being telegraphed have not been subtle: "I am on the inside.
What was the station used for? A. It was a ship-to-shore station that carried Marconi wireless telegraph signals to ships and received the signals they sent, relaying them wherever they needed to go, whether it was to a mercantile interest in New York City or to a newspaper or to a private person.
