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Telegraph Quotes by James Gleick
- One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us…
- Information is crucial to our biological substance - our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance had anything to…
- When people say that the Internet is going to make us all geniuses, that was said about the telegraph. On the other hand, when they…
- For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should) preserve every message…
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- Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and… — Emily Greene Balch
- I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the… — Vince Cable
- The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing… — Noam Chomsky
- In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities… — Louis Pasteur
- 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
- 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
- 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
- As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles, and, as a toy it is beautiful; but ... its… — Elisha Gray
- Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. — George Bernard Shaw
- Whatever influence you have, it's only for a small amount of time. When Sir Frank (Packer) sold the Daily and Sunday Telegraph… — Ita Buttrose
- 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
- 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