This telegram was sent by Orville Wright in December 1903 from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, following the first successful airplane flight.
Telegram style, telegraph style, telegraphic style, or telegraphese[1] is a clipped way of writing which abbreviates words and packs information into the smallest possible number of words or characters. It originated in the telegraph age when telecommunication consisted only of short messages transmitted by hand over the telegraph wire. The telegraph companies charged for their service by the number of words in a message, with a maximum of 15 characters per word for a plain-language telegram, and 10 per word for one written in code. The style developed to minimize costs but still convey the message clearly and unambiguously.
The related term cablese describes the style of press messages sent uncoded but in a highly condensed style over submarine communications cables. In the U.S. Foreign Service, cablese referred to condensed telegraphic messaging that made heavy use of abbreviations and avoided use of definite or indefinite articles, punctuation, and other words unnecessary for comprehension of the message.
^Alred, Brusaw, and Oliu. Handbook of Technical Writing, Seventh Edition. New York, New York: St. Martins Press, 2003., p.522
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