And eventually, a telephone operator -- a telegraph operator sent out a simple message to the cheers of a waiting nation.
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"Some of the guns are for hunting and some are for protection, the hand guns, " Henke Pistorius is quoted as telling a Telegraph reporter.
Three people have been charged after protesters, including a man who climbed a telegraph pole, forced the closure of major Sussex road for several hours.
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They were trying to find a way to send more than one message at a time along a telegraph wire which was then one of the central technological problems of the day.
"If you imagine somebody up, say, a telegraph pole at the very top, needing to rewire something, they don't really want to be fiddling with a laptop, " explains Paul Reed, Motorola's mobile computing product manager.
The big player in the industry happens to be one our great grandparents used to depend on when they had to dash off a telegraph to folks overseas in the 19th century: Western Union ( WU).
He was the author of a number of discoveries relating to the telegraph industry, including a self-adjusting relay that solved the problem of circuits sticking open or shut, and a telegraph printer a precursor of what was later called the Teletype machine.
In a Daily Telegraph interview, Mr Hammond said a number of Conservative cabinet ministers believed "that we have to look at the welfare budget again... if we are going to get control of public spending on a sustainable basis".
Scott revealed plans to play the world-renowned poet during a Daily Telegraph interview at the Venice Film Festival.
In a Daily Telegraph letter, they say opposition from the British Medical Association is not representative of GPs already leading such groups.
Her day in Romsey, won in a sensational by-election victory by Lib Dem Sandra Gidley, started with the fallout from a Daily Telegraph article still dominating the day's agenda.
"Rushdie banished from Calcutta, " said a shocked Telegraph newspaper.
Though their home was obliterated, Kristina Daniel and her husband Donovan told a London Telegraph reporter that the only thing untouched in their home appeared to be an empty water bottle.
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Over the next three decades he dabbled in a variety of new technologies--electric storage batteries, steam- and gas-powered automobiles and a wireless telegraph--but after his death in 1911 the company focused again on temperature controls.
However 11 leading businessmen have endorsed AV in a rival letter to the Daily Telegraph - in a move which was independent of the official Yes campaign.
In a statement to the Telegraph, the brothers said they still had a "passion for the island" which they had "loved since they visited it as children".
As a journalist for the Sunday Telegraph, he has become a member of an influential new British school of cricket writing.
For a start, the Telegraph has moved from Canary Wharf to Victoria, a move that Bill, who spent most of his waking life in Fleet Street, would almost certainly welcome.
In the now vast multimedia universe, that may be akin to sending a message via telegraph instead of e-mail.
In a separate Sunday Telegraph article, Defence Secretary Des Browne said concerns the covenant "is in any way broken are wrong".
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Like his contemporaries in the hustling game, he made something of a specialty of maneuvering around bankers in the world of finance, and found a certain vicious joy in doing it well (frontier hustlers swindling East Coast bankers before the rise of the telegraph was a common occurrence).
But a stroke of luck led the classified ads person at the Lancashire Evening Telegraph to smell a potential story and refer him to the features desk.
The telegraph allowed a rudimentary wire service, relaying stories between cities at a faster pace.
The Daily Telegraph, a Sydney tabloid, meanwhile, has been running a daily column entitled The Kiwi Chokedown.
The Daily Telegraph has a picture of children playing in wetsuits in a flooded campsite in Cumbria.
Yet on the same day the Daily Telegraph published a Gallup poll which suggested that opinion was, if anything, moving the other way.
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The Daily Telegraph devotes a full page to the shot of a dreadlocked man clutching a woman with a grazed face near Russell Square.
One from the past that was pitch perfect was the Telegraph running a story on how the US had plans to invade Canada in 1940.
About 50 supporters of the campaign have signed a letter to the Telegraph which says advertisers make "heavy use of pester power because it is more effective than targeting parents directly".
And now ministers' fiercest critics, including the National Trust, the Daily Telegraph and a number of backbench Tory MPs, are scarcely typical of the kind of antagonists to a Conservative-led administration.
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