telegraphy
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Over the next decade, Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian aristocrat, developed a practical system of wireless telegraphy using radio waves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
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 ● May 30, 2023
Marconi came to Weston-super-Mare looking to experiment with what he called "telegraphy without wires" - known to us now as radio.
From BBC ● May 13, 2022
“The wonder of our time, electrical telegraphy, was long ago modeled in the animal,” du Bois-Reymond said in an 1851 speech.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 9, 2022
Wireless telegraphy, as radio was then called, required equipment that was too heavy and cumbersome to be carried into battle.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
