Collocations withtelegraph
These are words often used in combination withtelegraph.
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electric telegraph
It was later made more universally accurate by the electric telegraph and then by radio time signals.
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telegraph cable
That was a telegraph cable, and could only be used for telegraph purposes.
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telegraph company
Both the telegraph company and the military authorities dispose of these personal messages as speedily as the difficulties of the situation permit.
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telegraph key
For example, it is said that one keys the transmitter by interrupting some stage of amplification with a telegraph key.
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telegraph line
Once it got overlaid on the map's magic carpet, the line on paper effaced memory of the telegraph line.
From theCambridge English Corpus
telegraph office
The addresses and texts were all handed in at the chief telegraph office.
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telegraph operator
He also had the responsibility for the scientific party, which consisted of two botanists, a zoologist, two topographers, a doctor, a telegraph operator, and a news reporter.
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telegraph station
Sometimes his messages have to be sent by motor cars running thirty, forty, or fifty miles in order to get to the telegraph station.
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telegraph wire
Here is only one example, notable for combining appropriation of the opponents' dramatic gesture, use of an overlay, and the forgetting, at the climactic moment, of a telegraph wire.
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wireless telegraph
Some outlying light stations have been fitted with wireless telegraph apparatus, but, for reason of self-protection, this apparatus: was removed when war was declared.
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