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Home Dictionary Name: telegraphyWireless telegraphy
Wireless telegraphy, defined in the Wireless Telegraphy Acts, 1904 (4 Edw. 7, c. 24), s. 7, and 1925 (15 & 16 Geo.5, c. 67), s. 1, as meaning 'any system of communication by telegraph as defined in the Telegraph Acts, 1863 to 1904, without the aid of any wire connecting the points from and at which the messages or other communications are sent and received,' it being also provided that nothing in the Act shall prevent any person from making or using electrical apparatus for actuating machinery or for any purpose other than the transmission, including the reception as well as the sending, of messages. The Act of 1924 prohibits the establishment of any wireless telegraph station, or the establishment or working of any apparatus for wireless telegraphy, in any place or onboard any British ship, except under and in accordance with a licence granted in that behalf by the Postmaster-General. Search-warrants may be issued by order of the Postmaster-General, the Admiralty, Army Council, Air Co...
Telegraphi'
Telegraphi', written evidence of things past, Blount....
Radiotelegraphy
Telegraphy using the radiant energy of radio waves wireless telegraphy the term adopted for use by the Radiotelegraphic Convention of 1912...
Broadcast
Broadcast, means communication to the public--(i) by any means of wireless diffusion, whether in any one or more of the forms of signs, sounds or visual images; or (ii)by wire, and includes a re-broadcast. [Copyright Act, 1957 (14 of 1957), s. 2 (dd)]Means a transmission by wireless telegraphy of visual images, sounds or other information which is capable of being lawfully received by members of the general public, or is transmitted for presentation to members of the general public, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 6, 4th Edn., Para 203, p. 64.Means a transmission by wireless telegraphy of visual images, sounds or other information which is capable of being lawfully received by members of the public or is transmitted for presentation to members of the public and reference to broadcasting are to be construed accordingly, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 9(2), 4th Edn., Para 89, p. 74....
Broadcasting
Broadcasting. Aural or visual communication by wireless telegraphy (q.v.).In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, the service of broadcasting to the public by means of wireless telephony and television is carried on by the British Broadcasting Corporation incorporated by Royal Charter in December, 1926, which was supplemented in August, 1931, acting under licence of the Postmaster General. See Parliamentary Papers, Cmd. 5329 (1936); and WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY....
Coherer
Any device in which an imperfectly conducting contact between pieces of metal or other conductors loosely resting against each other is materially improved in conductivity by the influence of Hertzian waves so called by Sir O J Lodge in 1894 on the assumption that the impact of the electic waves caused the loosely connected parts to cohere or weld together a condition easily destroyed by tapping A common form of coherer as used in wireless telegraphy consists of a tube containing filings usually a pinch of nickel and silver filings in equal parts between terminal wires or plugs called conductor plugs...
Electro telegraphy
The art or science of constructing or using the electric telegraph the transmission of messages by means of the electric telegraph...
Kerite
A compound in which tar or asphaltum combined with animal or vegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur the product closely resembling rubber used principally as an insulating material in telegraphy...
Learning
The acquisition of knowledge or skill as the learning of languages the learning of telegraphy...
Marconi
Designating or pert to Marconis system of wireless telegraphy as Marconi aeumlrial coherer station system etc archaic...
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