telegraph definition

telegraph means any appliance, instrument, material or apparatus used or capable of use for transmission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images and sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, visual or other electro-magnetic emissions, Radio waves or Hertzian waves, galvanic, electric or magnetic means.
telegraph means a system of telecommunication operated under Commonwealth law.
telegraph means any system or means of conveying signs, signals, images, sounds or communications by the agency of electricity, magnetism or electromagnetism or any agency of a like nature, whether with or without the aid of wires, and includes wireless telegraphy, radio and visual transmission by the systems commonly known as television and telephone;

More Definitions of telegraph

telegraph means a wire or wires used for the purpose of telegraphic communications, with any casing, coating, tube, or pipe enclosing the same, and any apparatus connected therewith, for the purpose of telegraphic communications, and includes a telephone, and submarine cable: it also includes any apparatus for transmitting messages or other communications by means of electric signals, whether with or without the aid of wires;
telegraph means any apparatus, equipment or plant used for transmitting, emitting, making or receiving signs, signals, writing, speech, sound or intelligence of any nature by wire, radio or visual or electro-magnetic system.
telegraph means any system of telecommunication operated by an authority of the Commonwealth that provides telecommunications services or by any other authority approved by proclamation;
telegraph means an electric line or any other apparatus used for the purpose of telegraphic communication;
telegraph or " telegraph line" means a telegraph or telegraph line, as the case may be, as defined in section two of the Posts and Telegraphs Act;
telegraph means any appliance, instrument, material or apparatus used or capable of use for transmission or reception
telegraph means a wire or wires used for the purpose of telegraphic communication, with any casing, coating, tube or pipe enclosing the same, and any apparatus connected therewith for the purpose of telegraphic communication and shall mean and include any apparatus for transmitting messages or other communications by means of electric signals;