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radio-ˈtelegraph Also radiotelegraph. [f. radio- 4 + telegraph n.] A means of sending telegraphic messages by radio rather than along a wire. Usu. attrib. So ˌradio-teleˈgraphic a., -teleˈgraphically adv., -teˈlegraphist (all rare); radio-teˈlegraphy, wireless telegraphy.
1898J. Munro in Electrician 21 Jan. 428/2 ‘Wireless telegraphy’ is not a bad technical term; but if a more scientific name be desirable would not Radiotelegraphy or Ray Telegraphy be preferable to ‘Space Telegraphy’? which Dr. Lodge employs. 1902Nature 25 Sept. 538/2 The creation of a radio-telegraphic station communicating with the stations established..by the Marconi companies in London and in America. 1903Ibid. 23 Apr. 590/1 The establishment on the coast and on the islands off the Italian coast of a system of twelve Marconi radio-telegraph stations of an average range of 300 kilometres. 1906Westm. Gaz. 19 Dec. 2/2 Wireless telegraphy, or ‘radio-telegraphy’, as it is more technically called. 1907Athenæ um 14 Sept. 308/1 The Report and Evidence of the Radiotelegraphic Convention Committee. 1907Daily Chron. 11 Nov. 6/6 The Amalgamated Radio-Telegraph Company, Limited. 1908J. A. Fleming Radiotelegr. & Radiotelephony p. vi, Expositions of electrical phenomena which are..unnecessary to the practical radiotelegraphist. 1918Wireless World June 192 (heading) Senatore Marconi radiotelegraphically expresses the national sentiment of Italy. 1921Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts 9 Dec. 68/2 Marconi..was able to dispatch wireless messages across the Atlantic which made long-distance radio⁓telegraphy a demonstrated achievement. 1945Sun (Baltimore) 23 Oct. 1/3 (heading) Radio telegraph plan announced. 1955Times 12 Aug. 5/3 A feature of the year has been the development in leased channel operations, that is, in the provision of direct customer-to-customer private radio⁓telegraph circuits. 1966McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. I. 364/2 Much of the radiotelegraph traffic of the world uses AM telegraphy, although there had been extensive conversion to frequency-shift (frequency-modulation) telegraphy since 1944. Ibid., Most aviation and marine radiotelegraphy uses AM manual methods. |