Well into WWI, it was the animal alternative to Marconi's system for sending wireless long-distance messages
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am convinced that I today can send a message to a ship at sea, and that... [DOC] [TLE] To send a telegram you had to hand deliver your message to a ... [PAR] At the receiving end, machines translate the encoded message back into words 
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