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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TAV-THE |
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TELEGRAPH (Gr. Tike, far, and rypaq5eiv, to write) , the name given to an apparatus for the transmission of intelligence to a distance. Etymologically the word implies that the messages are written, but its earliest use was of appliances that depended on visual signals, such as the semaphore or optical
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