telegraph poles
Roadside wooden uprights
Telegraph poles are tall wooden posts that support overhead wires for telegraph, telephone, or electrical lines.
They line roadsides and railways, a familiar feature of rural and suburban landscapes.
The term persists even where the wires now carry telephone or power rather than telegraph signals: Birds perched on the telegraph poles along the highway.
- wiresMetallic electrical conductors
- creosoteCoal-tar distillate for preservation
- insulatorsMaterials blocking energy transfer
- crossarmHorizontal pole-mounted beam
- woodenMade from timber
wooden posts · linemen · Western Union · silhouette · prairie · country road · conductor · roadside · telephone poles · strung · railroad ties · electricity · outback · Victorian era · spikes · cables · communication · crossbars
- telegraphyMorse code, dots and dashes, Morse key, dit, dah
- telegraph eraSamuel Morse, morse code, Morse code, Western Union
- telegraph linesMorse code, wires, wire, copper wire, galvanized wire
- railroadstrains, train, tracks, track, locomotive
- 1860sAbraham Lincoln, American Civil War, Appomattox, Confederacy, Confederate States
telegraph polesburied cables
Wiring installed underground
underground cables · undersea cables · subway tunnels · sewers
pole, telegraph, telegraphs, telegraphic, telegraphy, biographic, telegrapher, telegraphers, telegraphist