Corrections Quote by Christilot Hanson-Boylen

For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should) preserve every…

— James Gleick

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

— Charles Babbage

“The signal has been sent and ignored so many times that it has learned to send itself more quietly.”

— Asif Kabir

“A groundswell of silence moved between us. Trouble on the surface and even deeper currents beneath.”

— Lisa Kleypas

An insulting telegram is a barbed wire.

— Nikhil Saluja

“story was being broadcast over the British radio, and those with hidden transistors were finally learning the tale in tantalizingly vague bits and”

— Tilar J. Mazzeo

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is…

— Albert Einstein

“I could see the corridor window, where the wires-six thin black wires-were doing their best to slant up, to ascend skyward, despite the lightning…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“It was dead contrary to the common experience of such encounters, when time is found to have built its own defensive lines, camouflaged vulnerable…

— Evelyn Waugh

“All the jarring, rattling and clanking, spurting and hissing of the moving train of the train dissolved in the distance into something that was…

— R K Narayan

“That ominous sound heralded a new storm along the path that should have been near its end - a storm greater than any we…

— Reki Kawahara

The medium obscured the message.

— Christopher Moore