heliograph

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Many of the instruments used in early operations of the United States Army Signal Corps were adaptations of equipment used by the Plains Indians, particularly that of the heliograph.

From SAT Tests

In the flash of heliograph signals in the North Sea haze and the speaking of great naval guns, the world has lately read a certain statement about the British Empire.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cavalry, summoned by heliograph from Mahsama, co-operated, and in a moonlight charge inflicted considerable loss.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various

Lane confined himself to terse winkings that would have been gruff were it possible for a heliograph to be gruff.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman

"When you come to making dots and dashes in the Morse code, or what answers for the same with the heliograph, or a torch, or signal flags, I guess all languages are the same!"

From The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields by Goldfrap, John Henry