Telegraph Island (also known as Arabic: جزيرة تليغراف, Jazīrat al Maqlab, and Şaghīr) is located in the Elphinstone Inlet or Khor Ash Sham, the inner inlet...
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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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a settlement on the island of St Mary's, England Telegraph, Texas, a ghost town in Kimble County, Texas, United States Telegraph Avenue, in Alameda County...
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Elphinstone Inlet (section Telegraph station)
Island. The island was the location of a telegraph repeater station between 1864 and 1868, built by the British government's Indo-European Telegraph Department...
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and weather, and prevented the optical telegraph from crossing wide expanses of water, unless a convenient island could be used for a relay station. A modern...
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Shetland Islands Telegraph Company provided telegraph services between Caithness, Orkney and Shetland from 1870 until 1876. The Orkney & Shetland Islands Telegraph...
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South Island telegraph frog (Eleutherodactylus audanti) is a species of frog in the family Eleutherodactylidae endemic to Hispaniola. It occurs in the...
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rushed in to fill the valleys with fingers of water. Dibba Middle East Telegraph Island Lancaster, Fidelity; Lancaster, William (2011). Honour is in Contentment:...
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Musandam, as well as to visit Telegraph Island, for a short time (between 1865 and 1868) the site of a staffed telegraph repeater station on the cable...
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York Telegraph Line. It was the landing point for the undersea cable Telegraph Cable between Cape York Peninsula and Thursday Island. The telegraph station...
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