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Telegraph Wire Communicate Long Telɪɡræf Mother Message Arrive

Front telegraph
Pron ['telɪɡræf]
Back 【TELEGRAPH】
Mother sent me a message by telegraph that she would arrive home by afternoon plane.
妈妈打一个电报给我说她将坐下午的飞机回家。
【重点词汇】
telegraph n. 电报
Vocab
telegraphapparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code)

Forget about the internet! Before even the telephone was invented, the telegraph — a device used to communicate via electronic signals — was the main mode of communicating long distance. We've come a long way!

The telegraph is an outdated form of communication as far as sending long-distance messages goes. It uses an electric signal broken to create a code that then transmits over a wire and translates into a message. Alexander Graham Bell started tinkering with the telegraph and ended up inventing the first "harmonic telegraph" to transmit sound through a wire — which led to the birth of the modern telephone.

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