heliograph
Example Sentences
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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
And the glass of water she lifted pierced like a heliograph into the room.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
Lewis had put his question as to the strange habits of the common moth to Merritt with the deliberate intent of closing the debate on death by heliograph.
From The Terror A Mystery by Arthur Machen
“He said you understood—Britt did,” clamored MacLeod, hastening around in front of the heliograph.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
