Telegraph key information

A telegraph key or Morse key is a specialized electrical switch used by a trained operator to transmit text messages in Morse code in a telegraphy system...

In a manual system, the sending operator taps on a switch called a telegraph key which turns the transmitter on and off, producing the pulses of radio...

Electrical telegraphs were point-to-point text messaging systems, primarily used from the 1840s until the late 20th century. It was the first electrical...

Look up key or Keys in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Key, Keys, The Key or The Keys may refer to: Key (cryptography), a piece of information needed...

radio-telegraphy, the term "keyer" specifically refers to a device which converts signals from an "iambic" type or "sideswiper" type telegraph key into Morse code...

Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily conservative broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media...

Morse code. A telegraph operator at the sending end of the line would create the message by tapping on a switch called a telegraph key, which rapidly...

Although the traditional telegraph key (straight key) is still used by some amateurs, the use of mechanical semi-automatic keyers (informally called "bugs")...

reliability; A telegraph key to operate the transmitter to send short and long pulses, corresponding to the dots-and-dashes of Morse code; and A telegraph register...

English), telegrapher (American English), or telegraph operator is an operator who uses a telegraph key to send and receive the Morse code in order to...

systems are thus not true telegraphs. The earliest true telegraph put into widespread use was the Chappe telegraph, an optical telegraph invented by Claude Chappe...

The Break key (or the symbol ⎉) of a computer keyboard refers to breaking a telegraph circuit and originated with 19th century practice. In modern usage...

this local key. For the Diplex, a different trick is used. To send two messages simultaneously, one has two independent local telegraph keys. These are...

early telegraph lines between 1845 and 1848. He was also responsible for several technical innovations of Morse's system, particularly the sending key and...

Telegraph Media Group Limited (TMG; previously the Telegraph Group) is the proprietor of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. It is a subsidiary...

fingerpiece, or knob, on the right side. The advantage of the key over a standard telegraph key is that it automatically generates strings of one of the two...

way that was similar to the telegraph. This method used vibrations and circuits to send electrical pulses, but was missing key features. Bell found that...

automatic exchanges had seven wires, one for the knife switch, one for each telegraph key, one for the bell, one for the push button and two for speaking. Rural...

spans and the three nearest northeast approach spans of the Francis Scott Key Bridge across the Patapsco River in the Baltimore metropolitan area of Maryland...

transmitted information by radiotelegraphy: the operator tapped on a telegraph key which turned the transmitter on-and-off to produce radio wave pulses...

Strowger switch uses two telegraph-type keys on a telephone set for dialing. Each key requires a separate wire to the exchange. The keys are tapped to step...

transmit information, the continuous wave must be turned off and on with a telegraph key to produce the different length pulses, "dots" and "dashes", that spell...

then and now". The Telegraph. Martin, Ben (7 November 2015). "Challenges on the horizon as easyJet turns 20". The Telegraph. "Key events in our history"...

article for The Daily Telegraph, Keyes details how her struggles with anxiety, depression, and alcoholism began at an early age. Keyes appeared on BBC's Imagine...

are also examples of printing telegraphs. The device was made by two 28-key piano-style keyboards by wire. Each piano key represented a letter of the alphabet...