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单词 wireless telegraph
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wireless telegraphn.

Brit. /ˌwʌɪələs ˈtɛlᵻɡrɑːf/, /ˌwʌɪələs ˈtɛlᵻɡraf/, U.S. /ˌwaɪ(ə)rlə ˈtɛləˌɡræf/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: wireless adj., telegraph n.
Etymology: < wireless adj. + telegraph n. Compare slightly earlier wireless telephone n.
Now historical.
An apparatus for sending telegrams using radio waves instead of wires; = radio-telegraph n.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun] > types of > radio-telegraphs
wireless telegraph1895
Marconigraph1902
radio-telegraph1903
radiograph1904
spark telegraph1934
rig1935
radioteletype1939
RT1941
1895 Olean (N.Y.) Democrat 15 Feb. We will have in this brightly lightened arcade a series of offices where..the clubman may talk to his cook or steward by the aerial wireless telegraph.
1898 Electr. Rev. 20 May 688/2 The first installation of Marconi's wireless telegraph system in Ireland for business purposes was made..last week.
1906 A. E. Kennelly Wireless Telegr. 110 A wireless-telegraph sending station.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 670 A private wireless telegraph which would transmit by dot and dash system the result of a national equine handicap.
1974 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 412 129/1 Just before 1900 Guglielmo Marconi patented his wireless telegraph system. By 1901 he succeeded in transmitting a message across the Atlantic.
2002 Jrnl. Contemp. Hist. 39 330 By late summer of that year British signals intelligence could decipher enemy messages sent by wireless telegraph.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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