Telegraph wires radiate like cobwebs from the main building.

电报线像蜘蛛网似地由主楼向四面八方伸展。

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After all, nerves and telegraph wires were both long strands, and they both used electricity to transmit signals.

毕竟，神经核电线一样都是长丝状，它们都用电流来传递信号。

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To transmit messages across telegraph wires, in the 1930s Morse and Vail created what came to be known as Morse code.

为了在电报线之间传送信息，在20世纪三十年代摩尔斯和威尔创造了摩尔斯电码。

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But they did not know that the telegraph office wires only went into the nearby forest.

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Known as the Carrington flare, it sent telegraph wires across Europe and America into a sparking frenzy.

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The so-called Carrington Event of 1-2 September 1859 shorted telegraph wires, starting fires in North America and Europe, and caused bright aurorae (northern and southern lights) to be seen in Cuba and Hawaii.

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The potential of such disturbances to disrupt electrical flows was first noticed during a particularly intense storm in 1859 so intense that geomagnetically induced currents arced from telegraph wires, shocked operators and started fires.

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