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    A telegraph key, clacker, tapper or morse key is a specialized electrical switch used by a trained operator to transmit text messages in Morse code in...
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  • The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group...
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    Morse code. A telegraph operator at the sending end of the line would create the message by tapping on a switch called a telegraph key, which rapidly...
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    In a manual system, the sending operator taps on a switch called a telegraph key which turns the transmitter on and off, producing the pulses of radio...
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  • radio-telegraphy, the term "keyer" specifically refers to a device which converts signals from an "iambic" type or "sideswiper" type telegraph key into Morse code...
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    relay of choice in telegraph systems and a key component for periodically renewing weak signals. Davy demonstrated his telegraph system in Regent's Park...
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  • Look up key or Keys in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Key, Keys, The Key or The Keys may refer to: Key (cryptography), a piece of information needed...
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    Although the traditional telegraph key (straight key) is still used by some amateurs, the use of mechanical semi-automatic keyers (informally called "bugs")...
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    English), telegrapher (American English), or telegraph operator is an operator who uses a telegraph key to send and receive the Morse code in order to...
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    reliability; A telegraph key to operate the transmitter to send short and long pulses, corresponding to the dots-and-dashes of Morse code; and A telegraph register...
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    Telegraphy (redirect from Telegraph)
    systems are thus not true telegraphs. The earliest true telegraph put into widespread use was the Chappe telegraph, an optical telegraph invented by Claude Chappe...
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    radiotelegraphy; the operator switched the transmitter on and off with a telegraph key, creating pulses of radio waves to spell out text messages in Morse...
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    early telegraph lines between 1845 and 1848. He was also responsible for several technical innovations of Morse's system, particularly the sending key and...
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    fingerpiece, or knob, on the right side. The advantage of the key over a standard telegraph key is that it automatically generates strings of one of the two...
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  • The Break key (or the symbol ⎉) of a computer keyboard refers to breaking a telegraph circuit and originated with 19th century practice. In modern usage...
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    when a wire is charged from a battery (for example when pressing a telegraph key), the electric charge in the wire induces an opposite charge in the...
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    this local key. For the Diplex, a different trick is used. To send two messages simultaneously, one has two independent local telegraph keys. These are...
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    Telegraph Media Group Limited (TMG; previously the Telegraph Group) is the proprietor of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. It is a subsidiary...
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  • discovers the power source is still running on automatic control. Nearby, a telegraph key has become entangled in a window shade's pull cord and a half-full Coca-Cola...
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    famous for his speed record in telegraph transmission, inventor, known for construction of different telegraph keys. Jesse Bunnell was born on 28 November...
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    way that was similar to the telegraph. This method used vibrations and circuits to send electrical pulses, but was missing key features. Bell found that...
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    Public-key cryptography, or asymmetric cryptography, is the field of cryptographic systems that use pairs of related keys. Each key pair consists of a...
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    article for The Daily Telegraph, Keyes details how her struggles with anxiety, depression, and alcoholism began at an early age. Keyes appeared on BBC's Imagine...
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    automatic exchanges had seven wires, one for the knife switch, one for each telegraph key, one for the bell, one for the push button and two for speaking. Rural...
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  • Continuous wave (redirect from Key click)
    transmit information, the continuous wave must be turned off and on with a telegraph key to produce the different length pulses, "dots" and "dashes", that spell...
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  • lice infestation Cootie, an alternate name for a sideswiper manual telegraph key Cooter Brown, or Cootie Brown, a name used in metaphors and similes...
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    are also examples of printing telegraphs. The device was made by two 28-key piano-style keyboards by wire. Each piano key represented a letter of the alphabet...
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    the Heritage Minute. The warning message is also changed. Coleman's telegraph key, watch and pen are on display in the Halifax Explosion exhibit at Halifax's...
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  • using the telegraph key to directly control antenna switching, semi break-in radio transceiver equipment typically uses the telegraph key to control...
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    Strowger switch uses two telegraph-type keys on a telephone set for dialing. Each key requires a separate wire to the exchange. The keys are tapped to step...
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