Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...future, they are power in the present time. This is clearly indicated by their instigation, organization and maintenance of the Japanese boycott when the negotiations over Shantung began between Japan and the weak officials of Peking. Although the students were denied the use of the mails and of the telegraph for their movement, by actual walking delegates they covered the country in a summer's recess and set up a tight boycott which cost Japanese merchants four to five million dollars a day for a number of months and thus enabled China to win a victory against Japan without resort...
...mechanical experiment to a great popular necessity. He saw the phonograph come up from a weird and uncanny curiosity to a general household necessity. He saw the moving picture force its way from a crazy notion to the greatest of all public amusements. And he has seen the wireless telegraph beat down public scorn and take its place as a general means of communication. And now he sees the amateur wireless experimenter and the wireless telephone edging their way slowly but surely-ahead, and he wonders what might be the results five years hence...
Wireless Came From Telegraph...
This wireless amateur came into being about twelve or fourteen years ago. He seemed to be one of the outgrowths of fooling with amateur wire telegraph instruments. A great many boys in years past became bitten with the telegraph bug and built little telegraph systems and communicated with each other in the next house or across the street. When Mr. Marconi began to achieve results with his wireless signals the most determined of these boys took up wireless. It was a hopeless effort, for Mr. Marconi himself was having heavy weather of it, even with all the money and facilities...
...time the year 1912 came around, the amateurs had grown in number and older men had become interested and communication became quite reliable over distances of five or six miles. That was considered very wonderful, for up to that time, the amateur telegraph wire had been limited to something like one city square at the outside. The keen interest of so many young men and the growing interest of older men, led some of the amateurs to embark in the business of making and selling wireless apparatus. The ordinary things were all homemade. In fact, it was impossible...