Telegraph Quotes

• Obviously, 'Lincoln' is not about the telegraph operator. There's a whole other movie before and after the two isolated scenes that I'm in.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Movie
  • Two
  • Before

• You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Cat
  • Wire
  • Telegraph

• The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Understand
  • Difficult
  • Ordinary

• From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes.

  

  Adam Rogers
  • Style
  • Jobs
  • Folks

• Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Discovery
  • I Hope
  • Vocal Sounds

• Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Sound
  • Mechanism
  • Density

• As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles, and, as a toy it is beautiful; but ... its commercial value will be limited.

  

  Elisha Gray
  • Beautiful
  • Value
  • Circles

• Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Lives
  • Engine
  • Replace