Word: telegraphe
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...railroad train near Munich. They had laid careful plans: a roll of marks, suitable clothing, a nearby underground contact. At night the train guards were sleepy. The prisoners went into the lava-tory of the third-class coach, closed the door, forced the window and climbed out. "At intervals telegraph poles whisked past our noses with a blowing noise, like seals coming up to breathe on a pitch-dark night ... I jumped ... I found myself doing neck rolls down a granite-chip embankment. I came to rest in a little gully. . . . It was stifling, suffocating, wonderful to be free...
Nobody seemed happier about the story than the engineers & scientists, of whom about a hundred thousand read TIME. They sent in any number of blueprints and plans of machines of their own invention, including one from an American Telephone & Telegraph Co. engineer which was called "the No. 2-B Regrettor (assumes a perpetually pessimistic attitude...
When a thoroughgoing magnetic storm gets rolling, there is the devil to pay. Radio and telegraph communications get out of kilter, navigation devices turn unreliable. The reason: great gusts of electrons, blasted loose from the sun by cyclonic sunspots, are overcharging the ionosphere. Effects of this high-level ionization are visible to the human eye in the aurora borealis, seen last fortnight as far south as New York and in Britain's Channel Islands...
Disturbance of telegraph and teletype communications is due in part to a phenomenon which stems directly from the abnormal electrical charge carried by the ionized atmosphere. The wires which carry the telegraph circuits absorb from the atmosphere sufficient charge to blank out the original current. Last week Western Union reported induced voltages five times those ordinarily present in a line transmitting messages...
...promised benefits of the merger with Postal Telegraph two and a half years ago, such as rate reductions, had been wiped out. If FCC grants the company's plea, telegraph rates will go up for the first time since...