• A telegraph code is one of the character encodings used to transmit information by telegraphy. Morse code is the best-known such code. Telegraphy usually...
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  • Chinese telegraph code, or Chinese commercial code, is a four-digit character encoding enabling the use of Chinese characters in electrical telegraph messages...
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    was the predecessor to the International Telegraph Alphabet No. 2 (ITA2), the most common teleprinter code in use before ASCII. Each character in the...
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    Telegraphy (redirect from Telegraph)
    telegraph was slower to develop in France due to the established optical telegraph system, but an electrical telegraph was put into use with a code compatible...
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    Instructograph Keyer Morse code abbreviations Morse code mnemonics NATO phonetic alphabet Radio code Tap code Telegraph key Wabun code Wireless telegraphy Until...
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    stand on one of the telegraph arms (code 001-721), and a message asking an adjacent station to confirm that they could see him do it (code 001-723). By 1809...
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    the first electric telegraph line, based on International Morse code, was set up in 1845. The last signal from a Chappe telegraph was sent in 1854. In...
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    communication, using a modified form of Morse's code that had been developed for German railways. Electrical telegraphs were used by the emerging railway companies...
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    ASCII (redirect from ASCII code)
    codes were required for ASCII. ITA2 was in turn based on Baudot code, the 5-bit telegraph code Émile Baudot invented in 1870 and patented in 1874. The committee...
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    some commercial use of Morse code was via machinery, it was often used as a manual code, generated by hand on a telegraph key and decipherable by ear,...
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  • is a telegraph signaling method in which one or more particular frequencies correspond to each desired signaling condition of a telegraph code. The transition...
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    experience of generations of telegraph operators. In the introduction to the 1907 edition of his book, "The Phillips Code: A Thoroughly Tested Method of...
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  • Wire signal (redirect from 92 Code)
    1859. The code was designed to reduce bandwidth consumption over telegraph lines, thus speeding transmissions by utilizing a numerical code system for...
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    characters in Morse code. A telegraph operator would translate the sounds into characters representing the telegraph message. Telegraph networks, used from...
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    A telegraph key, clacker, tapper or morse key is a specialized electrical switch used by a trained operator to transmit text messages in Morse code in...
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    1845 – 28 March 1903), French telegraph engineer and inventor of the first means of digital communication Baudot code, was one of the pioneers of telecommunications...
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    Telegraph covertly helped in the recruitment of code-breakers for Bletchley Park. The ability to solve The Telegraph's crossword in under 12 minutes was considered...
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  • for a telegraph code suitable for multiple Indian languages have been made as early as 1948, shortly after independence. See Chinese telegraph code. Equivalent...
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  • the return to International Code. Kana in Iroha order. Millikin, Donald (September 1942). "The Japanese Morse Telegraph Code". QST. Vol. XXVI, no. 9. American...
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  • uses plain text instead of code Optical telegraph, sending visual signals with pivoting shutters in towers Hydraulic telegraph, based on the displacement...
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  • 's 2nd area code". CBC News. 14 June 2011. "CRTC approves new 474 area code for Saskatchewan | CTV News". 23 July 2018. AT&T, Telegraph to Telephone...
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  • quietly revolutionary crime drama". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 19 May 2025. Mangan, Lucy (18 May 2025). "Code of Silence review – Rose Ayling-Ellis is...
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    American area codes established in October 1947 by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T). After the State of New Jersey with area code 201, the...
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    reduced, leading to more complex codes. The change was motivated by the economic need to reduce the number of telegraph wires used, which was related to...
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    A needle telegraph is an electrical telegraph that uses indicating needles moved electromagnetically as its means of displaying messages. It is one of...
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    symbolic codes. Electrical telegraphy used conducting wires to send messages, often incorporating a telegram service to deliver the telegraphed communication...
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  • agencies entered characters using a long, complicated list of Chinese telegraph codes, which assigned different numbers to each character. During the early...
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  • The Q-code is a standardised collection of three-letter codes that each start with the letter "Q". It is an operating signal initially developed for commercial...
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    Cipher (section Versus codes)
    message. An example of this is the commercial telegraph code which was used to shorten long telegraph messages which resulted from entering into commercial...
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    telegraphic codes were a commercial telegraph code used to shorten the telegraphic messages sent between the stations and offices of the railway. The codes listed...
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