He was not asleep, neither was he dead; but just as the various events in the world—matters of momentous importance to individuals—were flying through the telegraph wires, without the quiver of a wire or the slightest tone, so, through the mind of Rudy, thoughts of overwhelming importance ...
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regions or hatches. The imagery itself becomes the hatch, true to the nature of the layer. We ignore land slides and faults not critical for understanding. Recent lava is a distraction. It is plainly visible. We die into it when it is thick, but often find a line that telegraphs ...
The long wires of the telegraph poles doubled, two tracks ran up beside the train-three-four; came a succession of white-roofed houses, a glimpse of a trolley-car with frosted windows, streets-more streets-the city. She stood for a dazed moment in the frosty station before she saw three...
(Fig. 1), papyrus in the Roman Empire and medieval codices to modern typesetting, telegraph signals in submarine cables or the time-critical data infrastructure created in the wake of automated finance, information media offer ever more discrete ways of signalling and mobilizing ever greater ...
(Goldstein1951), and the spectrum of a fast OU-process close to either of the stable states. The telegraph process also has an exponential autocorrelation,\(c_1(\tau )=\langle x^2\rangle e^{-|\tau |/T}\), whereTis the escape time from one well across the potential barrier. This ...
A large number of the telegraph lines were going in all directions, as crooked5 as the vines that grapes grow on. So was born the expression, by the grapevine.Some writers believe that the phrase would soon have disappeared were it not for the American Civil War....
The pattern of technophobia recurred with the gramophone, the telegraph, the radio, and television. The 1950s saw reports about children glued to screens, becoming more “aggressive and irritable as a result of sleepless nights and tired days.” Those screens, of course, were televisions. Then...
This band was telegraphing moving further away from their black metal roots on their past two albums, so while the gothic metal they’re exploring throughout Sub Rosa In Æternum was expected, its surreal to hear just how incredibly well they’re pulling it off. The standout example of ...
Volcanic eruption could give rise to new island in the Canaries Telegraph.co.uk - December 5, 2011 For more than a month, burning lava and gases have been spewing up through the sea bed three miles south of El Hierro, the smallest of the seven Canary Islands. The eruption is part of ...