Why would someone want to buy or use a Telegraph?

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And what can a telegraph do?

Answer 1

The Telegraph is an alleged newspaper published in Sydney. It is probably a perfectly adequate wrapping for fish and chips.

Answer 2

If you have seen the last episode of "The Lord of the Rings" the series of fire beacons between "Gondor" and "Rohan" were a form of telegraph. That kind of system was used right up until the end of the 18th century. But it could only send one kind of message. By about 1800 some countries used masts with movable arms to send simple messages. These were semaphore telegraphs.

Early in the 19th century the British developed electric telegraphs which could send sentences using a moving needle. This was complicated by the fact that several wires were needed. The best known of these systems was the Wheatstone telegraph which was used by railway companies to help control the movement of trains.

Morse telegraphy replaced these systems in the mid 19th century. It was devised by Samuel F. B. Morse, an American portrait painter. By using a hand held switch, an operator could sent interrupted current along a single wire. At the other end, this could be interpreted as letters and numbers.

Because only one wire was needed with the circuit grounded at both ends, it was cheaper to construct that the British system and more reliable. Soon there were telegraph lines running London - Paris, across much of North America, across the Atlantic Ocean (see Cyrus Field). By the end of the 19th century all continents and large islands were connected to the telegraph net.

Instead of sending a message by ship which could take weeks or months, you could send a telegram and it would take only a few hours at most to get to the other side of the world. The system has been called the "Victorian Internet".

One of Edison's first inventions was a method of sending more than one message at a time on the same wire. By the mid 20th century there were several telegraphic systems, each much faster than the old hand held senders under names like Teletext, Teletype and Telex. E-mail is just a form of telegraphy.

In 1890 Richard Threlfall, Professor of Physics in Sydney, Australia, predicted that the electromagnetic waves investigated by the German researcher Heinrich Hertz in the late 1880s would lead to a system of "wireless telegraphy".

Within two years several people around the world were working on it but the most successful system was by G. Marconi. The system was originally intended to communicate with ships at sea, but Marconi found he could get signals across the Atlantic Ocean.

Answer 3

The Daily Telegraph is a newspaper in Sydney. It's name is usually shortened to The Telegraph. There's also a Sunday edition, The Sunday Telegraph.

In answer to your questions: Why would anyone buy a newspaper? They usually do it to read the news.

Answer 4

I didn't know what a telegraph could do until I looked it up on Wikipedia. Here is what they said:

Telegraphy (from the Greek words tele (τηλε) = far and graphein (γραφειν) = write) is the long-distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters, originally by changing something that could be observed from a distance (optical telegraphy). Radiotelegraphy or wireless telegraphy transmits messages using radio. Telegraphy includes recent forms of data transmission such as fax, email, and computer networks in general. (A telegraph is a machine for transmitting and receiving messages over long distances, i.e. for telegraphy. The word telegraph alone generally refers to an electrical telegraph). Wireless telegraphy is also known as CW, for continuous wave (a carrier modulated by on-off keying, as opposed to the earlier radio technique using a spark gap).

Telegraphy messages sent by the telegraph operators using Morse code were known as telegrams or cablegrams, often shortened to a cable or a wire message. Later, telegrams sent by the Telex network, a switched network of teleprinters similar to the telephone network, were known as telex messages. Before long distance telephone services were readily available or affordable, telegram services were very popular. Telegrams were often used to confirm business dealings and, unlike e-mail, telegrams were commonly used to create binding legal documents for business dealings.

Wire picture or wire photo was a newspaper picture that was sent from a remote location by a facsimile telegraph.

Answer 5

lmfao i suppose it is so you can chat