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Old and New London
… and petasus have taken refuge in the locomotive and telegraph hard by; but through the long vista of time perhaps …
Old and New London
… for several years subsequently, it was surmounted by a "telegraph," as the semaphore was then called. By this "telegraph" a message could be sent, on fine days and in clear … until its use was entirely superseded by the electric telegraph. Hence it is that Leigh Hunt quaintly remarks, in …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… 'Toast rack' and cut up some wood. No news. The electric telegraph now goes the whole of the way from London to the … 1854. They were mostly Finns and local islanders. The telegraph link from Varna in Bulgaria to the British base at …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… preach again, had not his congregation sent up by electric telegraph for him to come back. Another murder (at … project of uniting the new and old worlds together by telegraph seems about to be accomplished. It is I believe … and Empress of the French and the prince by electric telegraph. At a wake in Cork, so many people crowded into a …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… cold. Signor Lablaches' death at Naples, is announced by telegraph. 29. Went on with Louvre, cut up wood etc. Slightly …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… The Emperor of the French ordered Pelissier through the telegraph to do a certain thing. Pelissier said it was … 'Choultry.' It is said, and confirmed through electric telegraph, that the Russians are leaving Simpheropol in large … say, beyond that it is in Asia somewhere. That is all the telegraph tells us, as if the continent of Asia was only one …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… the castle (which is being extended), saw the submarine telegraph at the point that it enters the sea and other … modern times, viz. joining America to Europe by electric telegraph, is about to be an accomplished thing and a …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… and Miller's etc. Very fine. The Atlantic submarine telegraph cable is manufactured and coiled in the holds of … his list of public failures this year, viz, the Atlantic telegraph, Big Ben, and the failures of our model Indian …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… went to Clowes, Clays and Barlows, etc. The Atlantic Telegraph cable after 3 or 4 failures has at last been laid. …