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optical communication). There are two main types of such systems; the semaphore telegraph which uses pivoted indicator arms and conveys information according...

hydraulic telegraph (Greek: υδραυλικός τηλέγραφος) refers to two different semaphore systems involving the use of water-based mechanisms as a telegraph. The...

The corporate town of Semaphore was a local government area in South Australia. It was created on 20 December 1883, and re-gazetted on 17 January 1884...

January 1805) was a French inventor who in 1792 demonstrated a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France. His system consisted of...

telegraphs, ship flags and semaphore lines were the earliest forms of optical communication. Hydraulic telegraph semaphores date back to the 4th century...

smoke-producing devices used to send distress signals. Lewis and Clark's journals cite several occasions when they adopted the Native American method of...

than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Thus flag semaphore is a method of telegraphy, whereas pigeon post is not. Ancient signalling...

movements aid air breathing in the semaphore crab, Heloecius cordiformis (Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae)". Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 162 (4):...

Services space. Since 2021, it has been styled as "the learning hub". Semaphore Lab is a research cluster dedicated to inclusive design in the area of...

88 Patrol Boats (Royal Australian Navy) Semaphore 17, 2005, para. 7 Semaphore 17, 2005, para. 6 Semaphore 17, 2005, para. 8 Navy League of Australia...

organised. Nyborg Knudshoved Halsskov Korsør Sprogø was a station for the semaphore line across the Belt, Storebæltstelegrafen, between Nyborg and Korsør...

John McKinney of Woodbine, Iowa, correctly spelling flaccid, followed by semaphore. Mary McCarthy of New York placed second, missing flaccid, followed by...

been severely reduced in size by the creation of the Corporate Town of Semaphore, on 7 August 1884. It ceased to exist when it merged with the Corporate...

Glanville, seceded as the new Corporate Town of Semaphore on 20 December 1883. In January 1884, the Semaphore council debated whether the Lefevre Peninsula...

Merryfield in West Tisted. The semaphore was never used in anger and the station was made redundant in 1847. The semaphore technology was eventually replaced...

railway level crossings. The first system of traffic signals, which was a semaphore traffic signal, was installed as a way to replace police officer control...

was controlled by two counting semaphores in what we now know as the producer/consumer arrangement: the one semaphore indicating the length of the queue...

approximately this point”. Suburbs on the Lefevre Peninsula include: Semaphore, Semaphore Park, Semaphore South, Ethelton, Glanville, New Port, Exeter, Birkenhead...

drums in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. In the 1790s, the first fixed semaphore systems emerged in Europe. However, it was not until the 1830s that electrical...

restored by the Trust for future lettings: Semaphore Tower, Chatley Heath, Cobham, Surrey. Only remaining semaphore tower from the Napoleonic era, listed Grade...