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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 252

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it, butthe battery current cannot flow until the arrivingwaves cause the receiver to complete the pathfor the electricity. In making and breaking thiscurrent flow, the receiver actually repeats thesignals despatched from a long way off, and inthis fashion dots and dashes representing lettersare… … THE GARDNER TORPEDO-SUBMARINE—CONTROLLEDBY SOUND WAVES. are put to service. In wireless telegraphy, allthat is asked of the receiver is to repeat a mes-sage; in telautomatics, the wireless message de- 154 WIRELESS WIZARDRY [Dec. mands action upon the part of mechanisms ca-pable of exerting a good…

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