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Telegraph key   /tˈɛləgrˌæf ki/   Listen
Telegraph key

noun
1.
Key consisting of a lever that sends a telegraph signal when it is depressed and the circuit is closed.





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"Telegraph key" Quotes from Famous Books



... equivalent, the letter D. The human hand, magnified till it is as big as the whole screen, is as useful in the moving picture alphabet as the letter D in the printed alphabet. This hand may open a lock. It may pour poison in a bottle. It may work a telegraph key. Then turning the white side of the cardboard uppermost we inscribe something to the effect that this hand may write on the wall, as at the feast of Belshazzar. Or it may represent some such conception as Rodin's Hand of God, ...
— The Art Of The Moving Picture • Vachel Lindsay


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