WHEN Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877 he was working on another idea, transcribing telegraphic messages with paper tapes. It struck him that if this worked he could probably make a machine repeat recognisable speech. He introduced a metal cylinder and his invention was a runaway success.
... assessment, Dr Blackwood reported that his speech had an odd prosody with an almost telegraphic qual...
...- or phase-modulated televisions or telegraphic transmitters or pulse-width modulated sound broadc... to accept and store data (telegraphic, speech or other) and to transmit these at transmission sp...
... or phase-modulated televisions or telegraphic transmitters or pulse-width modulated sound broadc... to accept and store data (telegraphic, speech or other) and to transmit these at transmission sp...
Birmingham in 1857. A town of some 260,000 people, two central railway stations and the same number of MPs. A town with only one decent theatre (on New Street) and one suburb (Edgbaston). A place with just two public buildings, whose councillors met in the pub (even when they were on duty) for want of anywhere better. And if the conduct of its politics was grubby, even worse was the grubbiness of the streets and the courts, where most of the people lived. So much for the positive side. Then there were the critics. They would say that it was a town with only one work of art (the statue of Lord Nelson) and a population whose only interest was in making money. There were others, however, who knew that there was more to Birmingham than this. The government had cause to remember Birmingham w...
..., it was also the day after the Queen's Speech in Parliament, which was always a good day for sal... that the new paper had the latest in telegraphic equipment to guarantee that the latest news (and a...
.IF you are a father and you witnessed the birth of your child, you had a ringside seat at nature's most magnificent pageant. Any new dad could fi l page after page with his impressions of the event, from the look on his baby's face in the seconds after birth - a spectrum of emotions running from surprise to bewilderment to maniacal fury - to his first clear look at the eyes when presented with the swaddled infant. It's a deep moment, that first returned gaze; a communion of sorts. This notional journal could continue through early infancy, with its mundane rhythm of sleep-eat-poosleep, and on into toddlerhood where it would record first steps, first words, first tantrums.
...He describes the notes as "telegraphic", though they were rich enough in detail to enable... of interest is what's known as private speech. This is a monologue which, in adulthood, becomes ...
... reached fever pitch in October when a speech due to be given by a leading Jewish academic and w..., Elcott was quoted by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) as saying. "What we're talking about ...
...(a) speech, music and other sounds ;. (b) visual images;. (c)...(3) For the words " telegraphic communication ", in the first place where they occ...
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..., later going on to the Central School of Speech and Drama. His most high profile role has been the...For many years Liverpool FC's telegraphic address was 'Goalkeeper' - and one of the primary ...
... any country to muzzle the media and free speech is attacked. But for the attack to be meaningful a... arms manufacturer's hank accounts, telegraphic transfer orders and import licences." . Surely, fo...
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