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What does telegraphy mean?

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  1. communication at a distance by means of the telegraph, either over wires or by wireless telegraphy, usually using Morse code
  2. the apparatus and techniques used in such a system
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In this function it is a significant incremental improvement to pre-existing telegraphy and telephony.
The development of telegraphy also brought immediacy to the content of newspapers that had not been possible before.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse invented the Morse system of telegraphy in the 1840s in the United States.
Without the discoveries, inventions, and theories of these abstract scientific men telegraphy, as it now is, would be impossible.
As things turned out, railways and telegraphy made things easier for the police, too.
The text, which describes the Daniell cell and other early batteries, comes from an 1871 book about telegraphy.

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