cablegrams
Overseas telegraph dispatches
Cablegrams are messages sent by undersea telegraph cable, especially across the Atlantic.
The word belongs to the era before satellite and internet communication, when international messages traveled through cables laid on the ocean floor.
A cablegram was faster than mail but slower and more expensive than a phone call, used for urgent business or news: The cablegram arrived announcing the treaty's signing.
Electrical message system
- wireThin metallic conductor
- messageTransmitted communication
- transmissionSending of information
- MorseTelegraph code originator
dispatch · operator · relay · transatlantic · submarine · Western Union · ticker · dots
Official diplomatic residence abroad
- communiqueOfficial public announcement
- dispatchSend with speed
- envoyAccredited diplomatic representative
- foreign officeDiplomatic affairs ministry
classified · encrypted · cipher · decode · consul · attache · ministry · confidential
Of a prim era
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
- steamshipBoiler-propelled water vessel
- nineteenth centuryYears 1801-1900
- transatlanticSpanning the ocean between continents
obsolete · archives · correspondence · period · wartime · colonial · vintage · antiquated
telegraph
Electrical message system
- wireThin metallic conductor
- messageTransmitted communication
- transmissionSending of information
Morse · dispatch · operator · relay · transatlantic · submarine · Western Union · ticker · dots · dashes
embassy
Official diplomatic residence abroad
- communiqueOfficial public announcement
- dispatchSend with speed
- envoyAccredited diplomatic representative
foreign office · classified · encrypted · cipher · decode · consul · attache · ministry · confidential · state department
Victorian
Of a prim era
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
- steamshipBoiler-propelled water vessel
- nineteenth centuryYears 1801-1900
transatlantic · obsolete · archives · correspondence · period · wartime · colonial · vintage · antiquated · overseas
- diplomacyembassy, ambassador, ambassadors, treaty, treaties
cablegramsletters
Alphabetic characters or mail
phone calls · voice calls · snail mail · surface mail · carrier pigeons
cablegramsemails
Digital written messages
text messages · instant messages · SMS · video calls · electronic mail