The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A little bird sat on a telegraph wire, and said to his mates; I declare, If wireless telegraph comes into vogue, Well… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect. — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited. — Elisha Gray Copy Share Image
Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, said that whenever he could not see his way clearly, he knelt down and… — Nathan Eldon Tanner Copy Share Image
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the highly unlikely event that the 'Telegraph' was to be sold again, then 'The Spectator' doesn't go with it. — Andrew Neil Copy Share Image
Indeed, the construction of a global telegraph network was widely expected, by Briggs and Maverick among others, to result in world peace:… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
I believe that the telephone and telegraph and other such conveniences were permitted by the Lord to be developed for the express… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
Most change in America doesn't come from, politicians. It comes from people inventing things and creating. The telephone, the telegraph, the computer,… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get… This whole… — Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve… — Edward Anthony Spitzka Copy Share Image
For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should)… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The Daily Telegraph reported on April 9, 1937: 'Since M. Litvinoff ousted Chicherin, no Russian has ever held a high post in… — Arnold Leese Copy Share Image
Just take ease of interchange between people. Your email is of course faster than letter - on the other hand the transition… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
“...your father is in town trying the telegraph office, though I assured him that'll be as profitable as trying to pick feathers… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman. — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their… — George Iles Copy Share Image
As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles, and, as a toy it is beautiful; but ... its… — Elisha Gray Copy Share Image
I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time,… — Ted Allen Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth. [Message tapped out by Sarnoff using a… — David Sarnoff Copy Share Image
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' were all regular fixtures on… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
![“I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get… This whole island [Manhattan] was once bought for a few strings of beads. But now you will find this property valued by its earning power, by its rent power, and that is the way to value a railroad or…” quote by Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4ad/jay-gould-41126_able_i-judge-property-myself-by-its-net-earni_1222079.jpg)
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