telegraph line
Morse code carrier
A telegraph line is the wire or cable strung between poles that carried electrical signals for telegraph communication.
Before telephones and the internet, telegraph lines connected distant points for transmitting messages in Morse code: Workers strung telegraph lines across the frontier.
The term now appears mainly in historical contexts.
Thin metallic conductor
- cableHeavy-duty woven line
- poleCylindrical shaft or extremity
- insulatorSubstance resisting energy flow
- conductorOne who directs musicians
copper · relay · junction · circuit · terminal · battery · ground · splice
Transmitted communication
- dispatchSend with speed
- telegramWired written dispatch
- newsReports of recent events
- transmissionSending of information
urgent · correspondence · information · bulletin · notification · intelligence · breaking news · wire service
Of a prim era
- 19th centuryThe eighteen hundreds
- Samuel MorseTelegraph pioneer, code creator
- Western UnionRemittance service company
- transatlantic cableUnderwater intercontinental communication wire
Pony Express · Civil War · railway · frontier · expansion · obsolete · heritage · postal service
wire
Thin metallic conductor
- cableHeavy-duty woven line
- poleCylindrical shaft or extremity
- insulatorSubstance resisting energy flow
conductor · copper · relay · junction · circuit · terminal · battery · ground · splice · stringing
message
Transmitted communication
transmission · urgent · correspondence · information · bulletin · notification · intelligence · breaking news · wire service · press
dot
Small circular mark
keying · decode · encode · codebook · alphabet · sounder · key · receiver · sender · transmitter
Victorian
Of a prim era
- 19th centuryThe eighteen hundreds
- Samuel MorseTelegraph pioneer, code creator
- Western UnionRemittance service company
transatlantic cable · Pony Express · Civil War · railway · frontier · expansion · obsolete · heritage · postal service · semaphore
- telegraphyMorse code, telegraphy, dots and dashes, Morse key, dit
- telegraph eraSamuel Morse, morse code, Morse code, Western Union
- railroadstrains, train, tracks, track, locomotive
- Outbackoutback, station, red sand, cattle station, dust storm
- Colonial AustraliaBotany Bay, penal colonies, convicts, penal colony, colonial settlement
- Western AustraliaFremantle, Kimberley, Newman, Albany, York
telegraph linewireless telegraphy
Cable-free signal transmission
radio transmission · satellite communication · Wi-Fi · Bluetooth · shortwave radio
telegraph linefiber optic cable
Light-transmitting data wire
internet · 5G network · instant messaging · broadband · smartphone
line, telegraph, telegraphing, telegraphs, telegraphic, telegraphist, telegraphically, telegraph lines, radiotelegram