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A telegraph's current, by contrast, was only on and off.
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Sharpe pointed the glass, held it steady by jamming it next to the telegraph's mast and, far away, like a speck of dust, he could see the tiny telegraph station.
Sharpe's Gold Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1981
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The story of the telegraph's younger brother, and great ally in communication, the telephone of Alexander Graham Bell, is another pregnant romance of American invention.
The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest Holland Thompson 1906
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The newspapers and telegraph's aid would have been invoked and such a hue and cry raised that it would have been next to impossible to escape.
Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life. Reminiscences As Told by Isaac D. Williams to "Tege" 1885
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For some time, the telegraph's eastern terminus only extended from the Atlantic to Nebraska and it's western terminus stretched from the California coast to Nevada.
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On Oct. 24, 1861, with the push of a button, California's chief justice, Stephen J. Field, wired a message from San Francisco to President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, congratulating him on the transcontinental telegraph's completion that day.
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For some time, the telegraph's eastern terminus only extended from the Atlantic to Nebraska and its western terminus from the California coast inland to Nevada.
The Seattle Times 2011
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For some time, the telegraph's eastern terminus only extended from the Atlantic to Nebraska and it's western terminus stretched from the California coast to Nevada.
The Seattle Times 2011
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For some time, the telegraph's eastern terminus only extended from the Eastern seaboard to Nebraska and its western terminus from the California coast to Nevada.
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For some time, the telegraph's eastern terminus only extended from the Atlantic to Nebraska and its western terminus from the California coast inland to Nevada.
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