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  • A telegraph's current, by contrast, was only on and off.

    False Claim, Future Fortune 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • 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.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • 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.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

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