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Aerial telegraphy may refer to:

  • Wigwag (flag signals), signalling by hand with a single flag
  • Optical telegraphy, chains of fixed telegraph stations using shutters or semaphore arms
  • Wireless telegraphy in general, or from an aircraft in particular

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Aerial telegraphy

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Aerial telegraphy may refer to: Wigwag (flag signals), signalling by hand with a single flag Optical telegraphy, chains of fixed telegraph stations using...

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Invention of radio

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race between the Columbia and Shamrock was successfully reported by aerial telegraphy, as many as 4,000 words having been (as is said) despatched from the...

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Signal Corps in the American Civil War

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communications for the warring armies, including electromagnetic telegraphy and aerial telegraphy ("wig-wag" signaling). Although both services had an implicit...

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Mahlon Loomis

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pages 1–20. "Wireless Telegraphy's Pioneer" by Ernest Newton Bagg, Western New England, January 1913, page 27. "Aerial Telegraphy", Frank Leslie's Illustrated...

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Uster Technologies

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spinning mills. The roots of the company date back to 1875, when an aerial telegraphy workshop was established in Uster, Switzerland. 1927, the production...

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United States Army Signal Corps

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proposed that the Army use his visual communications system, called aerial telegraphy (or "wig-wag"). When the Army adopted his system on 21 June 1860,...

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Guglielmo Marconi

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"in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy". Marconi was also an entrepreneur, businessman, and founder of The Wireless...

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Edward Porter Alexander

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Corps and the inventor of the code for "wig-wag" signal flags, or "aerial telegraphy". Alexander was promoted to second lieutenant on October 10, 1858...

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Transmission line

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minimum power loss. One familiar example is the down lead from a TV or radio aerial to the receiver. A large variety of circuits can also be constructed with...

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Aerial bombardment and international law

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conflict and refraining from attacks on protected persons. These restraints on aerial warfare are covered by the general laws of war, because unlike war on land...

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Television antenna

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A television antenna (TV aerial) is an antenna specifically designed for use with a television receiver (TV) to receive over-the-air broadcast television...

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British unmanned aerial vehicles of World War I

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) include both autonomous (capable of operating without human input) drones and remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs). The UAVs...

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Semaphore

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lights, flags, sunlight, and moving arms. Semaphores can be used for telegraphy when arranged in visually connected networks, or for traffic signalling...

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Fort de Valros

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of the fortress (number 7 on the plan above) is a remnant of the aerial telegraphy invented at the end of the 18th century by the engineer Claude Chappe...

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Women in telegraphy

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Women in telegraphy have been evident since the 1840s. The introduction of practical systems of telegraphy in the 1840s led to the creation of a new occupational...

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List of Reginald Fessenden patents

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"Wireless Telegraphy" – 12 August 1902 U.S. patent 706,736, "Apparatus for Wireless Telegraphy" – 12 August 1902 U.S. patent 706,737, "Wireless Telegraphy" –...

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Poldhu

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2010. Fleming, John Archibald (1906). The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy. London: Longmans Green and Co. pp. 449–454. Doyle, Arthur Conan (1968)...

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British Armed Forces communications and information systems

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History of Telegraphy, 272-273. Beauchamp, History of Telegraphy, 273-274 Beauchamp, History of Telegraphy, 274. Beauchamp, History of Telegraphy, 274 - 275...

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Greenleaf Whittier Pickard

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diaphragm distance), 1910 U.S. patent 1,104,073 - Detector for wireless telegraphy and telephony (looped or humped springy wire detector contact), 1914 U...

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History of broadcasting in Australia

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Australia. Wireless was closely aligned with the important postal and telegraphy functions and each state had its own post and telegraph department, which...

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Imperial Wireless Chain

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industrialized nations built global networks of powerful transoceanic wireless telegraphy stations to exchange Morse code telegram traffic with their overseas colonies...

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