The telegraph, the telephone, and radio were the obvious predecessors of the Internet, iPods, and mobile phones.
电报、电话和无线电显然是互联网、iPods 和移动电话的前身。
What accounts for the great outburst of major inventions in early America—breakthroughs such as the telegraph, the steamboat and the weaving machine?
是什么导致了早期美国例如电报、蒸汽船和织布机的重大发明的大量涌现？
The rise of the Internet has been one of the most transformative developments in human history, comparable in impact to the invention of the printing press and the telegraph.
互联网的兴起是人类历史上最具变革性的发展之一，其影响堪比印刷机和电报的发明。
The telegraph ticked out a message.
发报机滴滴答答地发出电报。
The invention of telegraph machines led to another big step in history.
电报机的发明引领了历史上又一大步。
But the characters who really intrigued me were the telegraph operators.
不过令我大感兴趣的角色却是电报员。
A solar storm in 1859, for example, caused telegraph lines to burst into flames.
比如1859年的太阳风暴使得电报线路起火燃烧。
What of the fears that telegraph companies would establish a monopoly over news?
电报公司会建立新闻垄断的担心呢？
Kindly let us have confirmation of these orders by telegraph tomorrow by 3 p.m.
您对我公司所提订单，请务必于明天下午三时前来电确认。
Weird Fact: the telegraph plant is capable of rapid movement - even in the absence of wind.
怪异的事实：舞草能在没有风的情况下快速摇动。
As with the telegraph before it-also hailed as a tool of peace-the Internet does nothing on its own.
正如因特网之前的电报——同样被认为是和平的工具——因特网自身什么也没做。
Gleick: When people say that the Internet is going to make us all geniuses, that was said about the telegraph.
格莱克：就像有人说互联网会让我们都成为天才，也有人这样说过电报。
These limitations also lessened the effectiveness of the semaphore, a modern precursor to the electric telegraph.
这些限制也削弱了旗语（电报的先驱）的作用。
The telegraph did indeed reshape the newspaper industry, but not in the way that Bennett and others had predicted.
电报确实在重塑报业，但并未以班尼特及其他人预测的方式进行。
When the telegraph first moved information over long distances at the speed of light, we'd hit a new turning point.
当电报首次以光速长距离传递信息时，我们迎来了转折点。
That summer when I was sixteen, we received a telegraph at home. I looked at it and saw it was from the countryside.
十六岁夏天，家里收到一份电报，我接过一看，是乡下来的。
I also own a piece of copper wire that was used 160 years ago as a conductor for the original Morse telegraph system.
我还有一根铜丝，那是160年前最早的摩尔斯电报系统曾用过的导体。
Then, in 1899, a telegraph cable connecting Britain to Cape Town came ashore amid the jagged rocks of Comfortless Cove.
然后，在1899年，一条连接不列颠岛与开普敦的电报电缆在礁石嶙峋的坎福特湾（Comfortless Cove）上岸。
And it was only after the invention of the telegraph that we understood that our nerves carry messages, just like wires.
电报发明以后，我们才理解人类的神经系统和线路一样输送信息。
Garcia was somewhere in the mountain vastness of Cuba - no one knew where. No mail nor telegraph message could reach him.
加西亚在古巴广阔的山脉里-没有人确切地知道他在哪里，也没有任何邮件或电报能够送到他手上。
Garcia was somewhere in the mountain vastness of Cuba - no one knew where. No mail nor telegraph message could reach him.
加西亚在古巴广阔的山脉里-没有人确切地知道他在哪里，也没有任何邮件或电报能够送到他手上。
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