heliograph

Example Sentences

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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

Lewis had put his question as to the strange habits of the common moth to Merritt with the deliberate intent of closing the debate on death by heliograph.

From The Terror A Mystery by Machen, Arthur

When I set up my heliograph he kicked it off the roof.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman

Far in rear, upon a hill-top, a heliograph blinked and flickered in the sun.

From Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure by Gilson, Charles