Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...applicant be a citizen of the United States between the age of 18 and 45 years. When the army is fighting the field battalion works at the absolute front and maintains communication with every unit, post, and detachment. The methods of signaling employed are the radio, the buzzer, the telegraph, and visual signaling...
...Cornell Corps consists of 16 companies of infantry, one company of engineers and sappers, one machine-gun platoon, an ambulance corps, and a signal corps. The signal corps is equipped with field wireless and telegraph instruments, and an aviation unit is in process of formation...
...Western Union Telegraph Company has enlarged its Cambridge headquarters to more than twice their former size. It now has a spacious well-equipped office, including individual glass-topped writing tables. The operating force has also been greatly increased and now four telephone operators, two Morse operators and two bookkeepers besides the manager and squad of ten messenger boys make up the day staff. There are eight people on the night force...
...telegraph announces that Mr. Samuel Hill of Seattle has established an endowment for a chair of Russian language and literature at the University of Washington. Mr. Hill is one of the overseers of Harvard University, and a man of large fortune. His latest gift to education resembles those remarkable endowments established by the will of Cecil Rhodes...
...will be the demonstration of the great number of branches of science and applied knowledge necessary for the completion of a huge undertaking like a modern skyscraper or battleship. There will be diagrams showing the technical knowledge necessary for the construction of each part. Early models of the telephone, telegraph, and other important inventions will be shown, and with each will be given the part played by Technology in its perfection...