Quotes About Telegraph

The invention of the telegraph took the efforts of a thousand, but the last man, who added that final inspired touch, got the credit. When you start viewing creativity as a process of combination, and imagination as the ability to connect, stretch, and merge things in new ways, creative brilliance becomes less mystifying. A creative genius is just better at connecting the dots than others are.

The invention of the telegraph took the efforts of a thousand, but the last man, who added that final inspired touch, got the credit. When

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

The first transatlantic line that enabled ordinary citizens to call between North America and Europe was laid only in 1956.

Here at the end of the line, here at the world's end, the world didn't end: iron piers stretched out over the ocean, iron towers pierced the sky, somewhere under the water a great telegraph cable longer than the longest train stretched past sunken ships and octopuses all the way to England—and Martin had the odd sensation, as he stood quietly in the lifting and falling waves, that the world, immense and extravagant, was rushing away in every direction:

In a mean-spirited show of contempt, the Confederates dumped Shaw's body and the bodies of the dead of the Fifty-Fourth into an unmarked grave and sent a telegram to the Union generals saying, "We have buried Shaw with his niggers." They'd hoped this would make other White officers think twice about leading Black troops. It didn't. The 180,000 Black troops under their White commanders would go on to help the Union win the

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.

Wash Williams, the telegraph operator of Winesburg, was the ugliest thing in town. His girth was immense, his neck thin, his legs feeble. He was dirty. Everything about him was unclean. Even the whites of his eyes looked soiled. I go too fast. Not everything about Wash was unclean. He took care of his hands.

Body parts telegraphed complaints from faraway places.

Less than two years later the swashbuckling operation was shut down when the Western Union Telegraph Company finished stringing its lines.

Tam jede naÅ¡e nadÄ›je. NaÅ¡e mládež. Bojovat za Svobodnou Evropu. A co vy tady? Tisknete razítka na zadek telegrafistky!

Samuel FB Morse's SECOND question over the telegraph was, Have you any news?

But no opposition grumbling could spoil the moment for the new president-elect. He donned his overcoat, thanked the telegraph operators for their hard work and hospitality, and stuffed the final dispatch from New York into his pocket as a souvenir. It was about time, he announced to one and all, that he "went home and told the news to a tired woman who was sitting up for him.

People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

Electricity moves at a speed greater than thought, a speed too great for thought to grasp. These twelve words, which have landed like a white, soundless thunderbolt in the airless humidity of the Austrian post office, were written only minutes before and three countries away, in the cold blue shadow of glaciers, under the clear violet Engadine sky, and the ink was not even dry on the telegraph form when the message, the summons, burst upon a bewildered consciousness.

Thursday, October 19th After breakfast, round to Ma's by 9.15. Her Telegraph bears the headline 'Palin for Prime Minister' on the arts page.

revert back is commonly seen and always redundant: 'If no other claimant can be found, the right to the money will revert back to her' (Daily Telegraph). Delete back.

Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour, without a doubt, wether they do or not; but whether we should live like baboons or like men, is a little uncertain.

Wir haben es eilig, eine telegrafische Verbindung zwischen Maine und Texas herzustellen: aber Maine und Texas haben sich vielleicht gar nichts Wichtiges mitzuteilen?

They should be more like what would have been sent by telegraph in days of old (when each word cost money) than prose.

But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you. Now sit still a while. Come with me, friend John, and you shall help me deck the room with my garlic, which is all the way from Haarlem, where my friend Vanderpool raise herb in his glass houses all the year. I had to telegraph yesterday, or they would not have been here. We

Chapter I The Philadelphia into which Frank Algernon Cowperwood was born was a city of two hundred and fifty thousand and more. It was set with handsome parks, notable buildings, and crowded with historic memories. Many of the things that we and he knew later were not then in existence—the telegraph, telephone, express company, ocean steamer, city delivery of mails.

The telegraph kept this all moving fast. The whole transaction between Wheeling and Washington took place in a matter of hours, and could have done so if the ends were San Francisco and Washington. So now, of course, a man could make a stupid decision much faster. So Hayes's natural caution made sense.