Australian railway telegraphic codes were devised to reduce the size of telegraphic messages, though some survived into the telephone era. They were used...
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Great Western Railway telegraphic codes were a commercial telegraph code used to shorten the telegraphic messages sent between the stations and offices...
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a telegraphic address similar to a trade name or identifier used by a rival. Australian railway telegraphic codes Nodename Short code Telegraph code Telex...
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robbery; is it true? Brevity code Australian railway telegraphic codes Great Western Railway telegraphic codes Telegraph code Telegraphese Kahn 1967, p. 838...
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using say telegraphic codes. Great Western Railway telegraphic codes Australian railway telegraphic codes Railway block code Commercial code Words can...
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Telegraphy (redirect from Telegraphic)
Wireless telegraphy is transmission of messages over radio with telegraphic codes. Contrary to the extensive definition used by Chappe, Morse argued...
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International code and the four unique Gerke codes into the local alphabet, hence Greek, Hebrew, Russian, and Ukrainian Morse codes. If more codes are needed...
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Australian railway signalling varies between the States of Australia, because the individual States are responsible for the railway systems within their...
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federation of Australia in 1901, the Postmaster-General's Department was established to take over from the states all postal and telegraphic services and...
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Electrical telegraph (section Telegraphic improvements)
telegraphic encoding became fully automated. Early teletypewriters used the ITA-1 Baudot code, a five-bit code. This yielded only thirty-two codes, so...
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Rail transport in Victoria (redirect from Railways in Victoria)
transport in the Australian state of Victoria is provided by a number of railway operators who operate over the government-owned railway lines. The network...
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Great Western Railway ships Great Western Railway telegraphic codes GWR locomotive numbering and classification List of 7-foot gauge railway locomotive names...
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Association, Australia Space Development Agency, a US DoD RDT&E agency Systemic Design Association, for systems design Swiss Telegraphic Agency (Schweizerische...
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channel) [es], in Bolivia Pakistan Awami Tehreek, a political party Polish Telegraphic Agency, the official news agency of Poland 1918–1991 Port Authority of...
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no. 4012. Queensland, Australia. 7 July 1921. p. 2. Retrieved 12 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia. "TELEGRAPHIC". The Brisbane Courier...
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Adelaide (redirect from Adelaide, South Australia, Australia)
on 22 July 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018. South Australia’s only Jewish school to close Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 4 July 2011 "Adelaide Jewish Museum"....
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terminology used at present and in the past by Australian railway employees, contractors, railway historians and railway enthusiasts. Many of the terms appear...
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two recorded Australian Aboriginal trackers Mogo, a local name for Ugali, a cornmeal mush Mogo, the Great Western Railway telegraphic code for a covered...
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Railway Centre is a railway museum and preservation engineering site in Didcot, Oxfordshire, England. The site was formerly a Great Western Railway engine...
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Charles Wheatstone invented a telegraphic system that used electrical currents to deflect magnetic needles, thus transmitting coded messages. This design soon...
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one rail to the other), typically around a curve Cape A British Railways telegraphic codeword to note the cancellation of a passenger train service Car...
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Terrorism in Australia deals with terrorist acts in Australia as well as steps taken by the Australian government to counter the threat of terrorism....
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Sydney the R.M.S. Makura, of the Canadian-Australian mail line, has been fitted with a powerful wireless telegraphic apparatus, and on the voyage from Vancouver...
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GWR Container (category Great Western Railway)
load. They were called by the telegraphic code Conflat, and most of them were fitted with vacuum brakes. In 1930 the railway introduced 100 containers primarily...
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of Australian rules football clubs since their formation. Note that some of these football clubs that formed before 1866 (see Laws of Australian football)...
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Absolute block signalling (category Railway signalling block systems)
each stage. In 1842 he published these ideas in a book entitled Telegraphic Railways: Or the Single Way Recommended by Safety, Economy, and Efficiency...
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the telegraph in the 1840s allowed then for the introduction of the telegraphic block system. Disc signals, probably of French origin, first, and then...
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Milton, Queensland (category Australian Statistical Geography Standard 2021 ID same as Wikidata)
via National Library of Australia. "Telegraphic". The Brisbane Courier. Vol. XXXII, no. 3, 440. Queensland, Australia. 28 May 1878. p. 2. Archived from...
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telegraph codes also served the purpose of maintaining the secrecy of commercially sensitive information; companies developed their own private codes. Many...
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telegraph operator. Duties of the telegrapher included sending and receiving telegraphic messages, known as telegrams, using a variety of signaling systems, and...
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