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
Lane confined himself to terse winkings that would have been gruff were it possible for a heliograph to be gruff.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
Far in rear, upon a hill-top, a heliograph blinked and flickered in the sun.
From Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure by Charles Gilson
