If you recieved both and no one told you, how would you know which was which?
2007-03-15 07:46:48 · 15 answers · asked by larry e 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
The telegraph refers to the equipment used and the telegram (or telegraph message) is the product it produces.
2007-03-15 07:50:08 · answer #1 · answered by lunatic 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
For the best answers, search on this site https://shorturl.im/axzRC
The narrator, or writer, made a mistake; although both WERE commonly used for the message. The telegram is the message. the telegraph is the machine used to send/receive telegrams.
2016-04-04 16:45:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ever see the movies where a person is pressing on a device on a desk...pressing long, short, long, long, short. That's a telegraph key. The message is being sent in Morse code. At the other end of the line a person is listening for the dots (short sound) and dashes (long sound) and translating those sounds into letters. Those letters makes words and those are written down to give to the recipient. That piece of paper is a telegram. Later, telegrams were sent my teletypes...an automated typewriter that translated the dots and dashes into letters.
2007-03-15 08:00:34 · answer #3 · answered by Grampa 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you're waiting for a telegram, then you're lost in the Twilight Zone!!! A Telegram was deciphered by the telegraph operator. That means the telegraph was the apparatus used to send a "telegram"
2007-03-15 07:51:03 · answer #4 · answered by Boof 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You wouldn't receive both...a telegraph is the instrument used to send a telegram.
2007-03-15 07:49:12 · answer #5 · answered by Grace 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well a "telegram" is the message sent from a "telegraph"
a telegraph is a device
while a "telegram" is the product of that device.
2007-03-15 07:52:13 · answer #6 · answered by guRl 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the difference is that a telegram is written and a telegraph is spoken. Not sure though...
2007-03-15 07:49:45 · answer #7 · answered by angela s 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Telegraphy, a method of long-distance communication
The telegram is the piece of paper or message you receive. The telegraph is the reference to how it is sent
2007-03-15 07:53:40 · answer #8 · answered by Curly 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What Is A Telegraph
2016-10-04 10:47:08 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a telegraph is a direct Morse code message from one operator to another, the telegram is the message, typed into text, and delivered to the intended recipient.
2007-03-15 07:50:21 · answer #10 · answered by sobrien 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋