heliograph

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But, knowing that the descent would be more difficult than the climb, he had torn into strips the stout tablecloth which had wrapped his heliographing apparatus.

From The Golden Silence by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

Don't you remember that we watched them heliographing some messages, and put down the Morse signs?

From Facing the German foe, by Colonel James Fiske by Wolff, William Almon

I've been searching about for a mirror and reflector, in case I try the experiment; for the heliographing apparatus was spoilt in the general wreckage of things by the storm.

From The Golden Silence by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

The play of the lightning was incessant, and with every flash the little lakes shot back their white reflection, and distant farm window-panes seemed heliographing to each other through the night.

From Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day by Stead, Robert J. C.

In his work as engineer he had had occasion to study up Morse in heliographing.

From The Cruise of the Dry Dock by Stribling, T. S.