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MVP seed record for the Americana 1920 telegraph article. The record is meant to exercise topic grouping, source filters, and scan provenance links.

TELEGRAPH (Gr. Tr/Xe, far, and ypafaiv, to write), the name given to an apparatus for the transmission of intelligence to a distance. Etymologically the word implies that the messages are written, but its earliest use was of appliances that depended on visual ...

... outhern district. Riding-oxen are also used. The province is well supplied with telegraphic communication and is connected with Europe by submarine cables. Government and Revenue. — The administration of the province is carried on under a governor-general, res ...

... t that Arago's movements and his blazing fires on the top of Mount Galatzo were telegraphic signals to the invading army. Ultimately they became so infuriated that he was obliged to cause himself to be incarcerated hi the fortress of Belver in June 1808. On th ...

... sh mountains (9000 ft.). Ardebil has a population of about 10,000, and post and telegraph offices. Its trade, principally in the hands of Armenians, is still important, but is chiefly a transit trade between Russia and Persia by way of Astara, a port on the Ca ...

... f sources of revenue are direct taxes, indirect taxes, customs duties, post and telegraph and post-office savings banks receipts, railway receipts, and profits or royalties on forests, domains and mining. The direct taxes are divided into two groups, real and ...

... ; LIGHTING: Electric; ELECTROCHEMISTRY and ELECTROMETALLURGY. The principles of telegraphy (land, submarine and wireless) and of telephony are discussed in the articles TELEGRAPH and TELEPHONE, and various electrical instruments are treated in separate article ...

... including classical and modern schools, and schools of commerce, navigation and telegraphy. The town has two interesting museums. Emden is the seat of an active trade in agricultural produce and live-stock, horses, timber, coal, tea and wine. The deep-sea fish ...

... mportance their primary duty of fortification and siegecraft, such as the field telegraph, the balloon service, nearly all demolitions, the building of pontoon and other bridges, and the construction and working of military roads, railways, piers, &c. All thes ...

... nableness, high seriousness, Hebraism and Hellenism, " young lions of the Daily Telegraph," and " the note of provinciality," Arnold far eclipsed his fame as a poet during his lifetime. His crusade of banter against the bad civilization of his own class was on ...

... ew European commercial firms are established at Tabriz; there are also post and telegraph offices. Tabriz has suffered much from earthquakes, notably in 858, 1042 and 1721, each time with almost complete destruction of the city. (A. H.-S.)

... 's introduction pht of the electric telephone as a competitor with the electric telegraph. Reis caused a membrane to open and close an electric 1 See his Scientific Papers, p. 47. 3 See Silliman's Jour., xxxii. 396, and xxxiii. 1 1 8. 4 Marrian, Phil. Mag., 3r ...

... ydrography as well as zoology, in association with the practical needs of ocean telegraphy, soon led to the granting of H.M.S. " Challenger " for a circumnavigating expedition, and Thomson sailed at the end of 1872 as director of the scientific staff, the crui ...

... nd copyists, packers and shippers, saleswomen (which is the largest class), and telegraph and telephone operators they have a large representation (13 to 34 %). A great variation exists in the proportion of the sexes employed in different manufacturing industr ...

... y West and the Daly Judge in the Park City district, and the Old Jordan and the Telegraph at Bingham, and there were fifteen other mines that produced between 1,000,000 and 3,000,000 ft of lead. Zinc has been produced in commercial quantities in Summit, Tooele ...

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