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From the Greek tele, meaning far off, and graphos, meaning written. See also Hellenologophobia. 1. An apparatus or process for communicating information over a distance by coded signals. Simple telegraphs employ smoke signals, drums, mirrors, flags, fires, lanterns, and mechanical semaphores. 2. The electric telegraph was invented by Samuel F.B. Morse (1791

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