| 单词 | dial telegraph |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdial telegraph dial telegraph n. now historical a telegraph having a dial marked with numbers and the letters of the alphabet, and operated in such a way that the needle on the dial at a receiving station copies the movements of that at the transmitting station. ΚΠ 1845 Hull Packet & E. Riding Times 20 June 7/2 One of the needles on the dial telegraph at the Southampton terminus became unfitted for use by its polarity being destroyed by the electric fluid. 1886 R. Wormell tr. A. von Urbanitzky Electr. in Service of Man (1890) 804 Of A B C systems where a battery is employed to furnish the current, Bréguet's Dial Telegraph is a good example. 1975 W. O. Henderson Rise German Industr. Power 1834–1914 xvi. 191 In the same year [sc. 1847] Werner Siemens went into partnership..to make dial telegraphs, ringing devices and electro-medical inductors. 2009 H. Obendorf Minimalism v. 114 The dial telegraph offered a direct mapping of interface and functionality and was easy to use. < as lemmas |
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