Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...little apparatus which will reduce the voltage of an electric wire without interfering with the current. Just what is the mechanism by which this result is accomplished can not be announced for the present. It is claimed that it will entirely supplant the motor dynamos which are used in telegraph and telephone companies. The Edison machine now in use costs $100 and Mr. Hogan says that his is so simple that it can be made to sell at $5.00. Experts have expressed themselves as satisfied that the invention will be a success, and it will probably be used throughout...
...these, Morse, who graduated at Yale, invented the electric telegraph, and Bell the telephone. Dr. Morton discovered ether. Four were historians, and all Harvard graduates - Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, and Parkman. The poets Emerson, Holmes and Lowell were also Harvard graduates; Longfellow and Hawthorne graduated from Bowdoin; Bryant studied at Williams; Whittier did not go to college. Of two painters, J. S. Copley and W. M. Hunt, the latter belonged to Harvard; and of three clergymen, Channing and Brooks graduated at Harvard, and Jonathan Edwards at Yale. Among statesmen are Pickering, John and J. Q. Adams, Dane, Quincy, Everett, and Sumner...
...analogy can be drawn from successful government management of Post Office and Telegraph. - (a) Routine management. - (b) Small fixed capital: Hadley, pp. 254, 255; Jevons Methods of Social Reform...
Resolved, That the above resolutions be placed on the minutes and that a copy be sent to the families and to the Harvard, Haverford and University of Pennsylvania papers and to the Public Ledger and Evening Telegraph...
...more frequent and consequently more cordial. It will attenuate the differences in scholarship, by securing a certain equivalence or equality of studies, and level the obstacles which now confine the students within their respective countries. This is so much more necessary since, despite the present facilities of roads and telegraph, universities are now less connected than they were in the thirteenth century, when it took months to travel between the universities of Paris and of Bologna...