heliograph
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Many of the instruments used in early operations of the United States Army Signal Corps were adaptations of equipment used by the Plains Indians, particularly that of the heliograph.
From SAT Tests
In the flash of heliograph signals in the North Sea haze and the speaking of great naval guns, the world has lately read a certain statement about the British Empire.
From Time Magazine Archive
Right in front, although the sun is not yet risen, the east is already lighted with preparatory fires, and the huge accumulations of the trade-wind cloud glow with and heliograph the coming day.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
In fact it seems to have acted as a pre-historic heliograph.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
And the glass of water she lifted pierced like a heliograph into the room.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
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