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。

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The electric telegraph being quicker than the wind, the vessels receive the news in time to take their directions.

电报的速度比风暴的移动更快，通过电报接受到的相关信息可以及时地获得风暴的去向。

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During this time period, the Massachusetts-born, Yale-educated Morse (who began his career as a painter), worked to develop an electric telegraph of his own.

在这个时期，出生于马萨诸塞州，毕业于耶鲁大学的摩尔斯(最初是一名画家)正致力于开发一套他自己的电报系统。

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The Electric Telegraph Company was founded in 1846, and there are probably parts of the British telecoms infrastructure older than Oklahoman statehood.

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But it was only with the growth of the electric telegraph network in the 1850s that readings could be collected from a wide area quickly enough to follow the weather as it changed.

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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.

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