What is "telegraphic"

Usage examples of "telegraphic".

Before Cummings had a chance to open his mouth, the roadster was parked in front of the station, and Asey was half - way into the telegraphic office.

Varley has calculated tables to enable any electrician at a glance to infer from two readings by this electrometer the insulating power of any telegraphic cable.

Such was the ingenious and very simple apparatus constructed by Cyrus Harding, an apparatus which would allow them to establish a telegraphic communication between Granite House and the corral.

By heliogram to Buller, and so to the farthest ends of that great body whose nerves are the telegraphic wires, there came the announcement of the attack.

There was never a word from Scott in the Khanda district, away to the south-east, except the regular telegraphic report to Hawkins.

And again, there is the desire to compress a telegraphic message into the minimum sixpennyworth, and so send an ambiguous and cryptic sentence, when sevenpence would have made it as clear as light.

Duke of Newcastle to state that he has had much satisfaction in receiving your letter of the 28th ultimo, enclosing the heads of a proposal for establishing telegraphic and postal communication between Lake Superior and New Westminster, through the agency of the Atlantic and Pacific Transit and Telegraph Company.

December 1927, Professor Carl Stormer of Oslo, an expert on the aurora borealis, chanced to meet a telegraphic engineer named Hals, to whom he mentioned the Taylor-Young puzzle.

The decision was substantially aided by the fact that the company had been doing a general telegraphic business within the State for more than fifty years without having been subjected to such an exaction.

The experimenters realized that future success lay in making the ether carry telephonic currents as it carried telegraphic currents.

The piece was telegraphic: undernamed no longer carried on major medical group policy number XXX because of failure to pay premium during previous period.

And within it, the brain became first a telegraphic signaling system and later, at the start of the present century, a telephone exchange, one of the several metaphors favoured by the great neurophysiologist Sherrington.

Pickwick might very probably have reasoned himself into the belief that it really was, had he not, just then happening to look out of the coach window, observed that the looks of the passengers betokened anything but respectful astonishment, and that various telegraphic communications appeared to be passing between them and some persons outside the vehicle, whereupon it occurred to him that these demonstrations might be, in some remote degree, referable to the humorous deportment of Mr.

Street was very busy with his telegraphic matters--and considering that he had eight or nine hundred miles of rugged, snowy, uninhabited mountains, and waterless, treeless, melancholy deserts to traverse with his wire, it was natural and needful that he should be as busy as possible.

They were telegraphic messenger boys (a group about to be rendered technically obsolescent), who swept up around the phone office, dunned customers for bills, and made phone connections on the switchboard, all on the cheap.