telegraphy

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Wireless telegraphy, as radio was then called, required equipment that was too heavy and cumbersome to be carried into battle.

From Literature

As a post office worker, he was assigned to the Royal Engineers, fighting with the 53rd Division, in order to lay vital telegraphy and field telephone systems.

From BBC

But the language didn't go very far in anticipating the more immediately problematic aspects of telegraphy, including the way it hastened the spread of misinformation, information overload, and many forms of imperialism.

From Salon

His prize was a book called Modern Views of Magnetism and Electricity which sparked his interest in radio telegraphy.

From BBC

Regarded as the "father of radio", Marconi was a joint-winner of the Nobel prize for his work with "wireless telegraphy", which included discoveries that allowed messages to be sent via radio waves.

From BBC