télégraphe

Meaning

telegraph

Concepts

telegraph

ticker

telegraph office

telegraphy

cable

wire

Frequency

26k
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/te.le.ɡʁaf/
Etymology

From télé- + -graphe, coined by André François Miot de Mélito in 1792 as a replacement for Claude Chappe's tachygraphe (literally “fast writer”), a communication system based on semaphores.

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