How to Use telegraphy in a Sentence

telegraphy

noun
  • The key was a variable (undulatory) current rather than the on/off pulses of telegraphy.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Early successes in long-distance telegraphy and electrical engineering quickly sent the company across Europe.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The highest enrollment was likely in 1909, with some 90 students studying bookkeeping, telegraphy, penmanship, math and English.
    Arkansas Online, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Khan joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) in 1940 and trained in wireless radio telegraphy.
    Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • At the same time, wondrous new technologies like radio and telegraphy, along with the invention of the automobile, created a feeling of limitless possibility, which included the potential of discovering life on other planets.
    Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2025

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