telegraphs
Early electronic communications
Telegraphs functions as both noun and verb from telegraph.
A telegraph is a system for transmitting messages over distance using electrical signals through wires—the dominant long-distance communication technology of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
To telegraph is to send such a message, or figuratively, to signal intentions too obviously: His body language telegraphed his nervousness.
A boxer who telegraphs punches lets opponents see them coming.
Signal-emitting device
- operatorOne who works machinery
- receiverOne who accepts transmission
- keyLock-opening device
- sounderMore solid or reliable
relay · cable · dispatch · message · wire · station · dots · dashes
transmitter
Signal-emitting device
sounder · relay · cable · dispatch · message · wire · station · dots · dashes · ticker
hints
Indirect suggestions
betrays · foreshadows · previews · announces · suggests · portends · presages · discloses · gives away · shows
punch
Strike with fist
opponent · fighter · anticipation · timing · giveaway · windup · shoulder · obvious · predictable · readable
- Meiji JapanEmperor Meiji, modernization, westernization, privy council, prefectures
- 1800s AmericaOregon Trail, Trail of Tears, transcontinental railroad, Civil War, Abraham Lincoln
- frontierfrontier, pioneer, pioneers, settlers, settler
- Edwardian BritainEdward VII, Queen Victoria, country houses, manor houses, servants
- military communicationsradio, walkie-talkie, radio operators, signal flags, morse code
- Steampunkgears, cogs, brass goggles, airship, dirigible
telegraphssmartphones
Handheld touchscreen computers
internet · email · satellite phones · instant messaging · fiber optics
telegraphsletters
Alphabetic characters or mail
couriers · messenger pigeons · pony express · snail mail · dispatches
- telegraph cablesWires transmitting electrical messages
- telegraph polesPosts supporting communication lines
- telegraph wiresCables carrying coded messages
- telegraph linesElectrical message transmission cables
- telegraph operatorTransmits coded wire messages
- wireless telegraphyCable-free signal transmission
telegraph, telegraphed, telegraphing, telegraphic, telegraphy, telegrapher, telegraphers, telegraphically