Word: telegraphe
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...Honolulu, a photograph was wrapped upon a glass tube. Within the tube was an electric light. Without was a photosensitive apparatus. The wrapped tube revolved slowly and the photosensitive apparatus translated light and shade into dots and dashes on a telegraph...
...attached to a telegraph wire that carried the dots and dashes to powerful radio station KIE at Kahuku. There ether waves, 16,975 metres long, were given impulse as the dots and dashes came...
...flooded out. Some of them, after 2,372 miles of invisible undulations over the Pacific Ocean, impinged upon an automatic relaying set at Marshall, Calif. Without human aid of any sort, this set passed the sequence of dots and dashes, as it got them from the ether, over another telegraph line to Station KET (Bolinas, Calif.). There an operator put the ether to work again and, after tuning in to synchronizing signals, the lofty spindles of Station RCA (Riverhead, L. I.) caught up the dot-dash skein...
...would have been simple enough to fling the signals on, to Europe, to Asia, even on around the globe to Hawaii whence they had started. Instead, Station RCA brought them down into a last telegraph line, shot them in to Manhattan...
Employment representatives of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, the New York Telephone Company, the Western Electric Company, and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company will participate in the interviews...