They failed all over the world, shocking their operators and chucking out sparks.

全球的报系统都崩溃，报机蹦出火花，导致操作员触。

It’s why I keep models of American inventions like the telegraph in the Oval Office.

因此，我将美国人民创新精神的代表作，报机等放在总统办公室。

But its wireless operator turned off the telegraph and went to sleep 15 minutes earlier.

但其无线报员十五分钟前关报机 睡觉去。

And the best, earliest quote that I could find was one from David Livingstone, writing in the 1850s about how the railroad, the steam ship, and the telegraph were integrating East Africa perfectly with the rest of the world.

我所找到最早的完整表述是来自于大卫•利文斯顿写于1850年，谈论铁路、蒸汽船、以及报机，正完美地将东非以及世界其它地方融合在一起。

In a few days the boy had learned it, and had made a telegraph set of his own between his cellar and the house of one of his chums.

几天后，爱迪生学会发报，还在自己的地下室和其中一个伙伴的房子之间制作一套自己的报机。

At age twenty three, he made a special telegraphic machine and sold it for a lot of money.

23岁时，他发明一种特殊的报机并卖很多钱。

With the invention of a device called the telegraph, inventors figured out that they could, instead of using puffs of smoke, the telegraph sent puffs of electricity, along a wire.

着报机的发明，发明者们发现，报机可以沿着线发送一股流， 而不是使用烟雾。

The signal box also  contains other period equipment such as a telephone and telegraph, instruments giving  visitors a glimpse into the signalman's working environment.

信号箱内还包含其他时期的设备，如话和报机，这些仪器让游客一窥信号员的工作环境。

She tells me how in 1945, there was a dedicated telegraph machine standing by for the sole purpose of awaiting the Japanese surrender.

她向我讲述1945年，有一台专门的报机时刻待命，只为等待日本投降的那一刻。

The telegraph machine had given way to radio, and the battle to create new methods of encryption intensified, because for every code invented, people known as " code breakers" worked tirelessly to solve the riddle.

报机已经让位给无线，创造新加密方法的斗争愈演愈烈，因为每发明一个密码，被称为“密码破译者”的人们就会孜孜不倦地努力解开谜题。

Inside a room in his attic laboratory, 28-year-old Alexander Graham Bell tinkers with a modified telegraph machine.

在他的阁楼实验室的一间屋子里，28岁的亚历山大·格拉汉姆·贝尔正在摆弄一台改良过的报机。

The stock market was changing rapidly, and the broken telegraph machine delayed a lot of business.

股票市场瞬息万变, 报机故障耽误大量业务。

So Bell is investigating whether a single-tone telegraph machine could be altered to send and receive different tones.

于是，贝尔正在研究是否能改造单一音调的报机，使其能够发送和接收不同的音调。

He developed his first practical patent in his life, a telegraph machine that could receive and transmit messages simultaneously, known as the duplex telegraph.

他开发他一生中的第一项实用专利，一种可以同时接收和传输信息的报机，称为双工报。

After the telegraph machine, the next pillar product of Edison's company was the phonograph.

继报机之后，爱迪生公司的下一个支柱产品是留声机。

He understands that Bell has submitted an application for a new form of telegraph that can transmit speech.

他明白贝尔提交一份关于可以传输语音的新式报机的申请。

One day, Edison passed by the door of a stock brokerage firm, and the telegraph machine of this company happened to be broken.

一天， 爱迪生路过一家股票经纪公司的门口，这家公司的报机恰好坏。

The boss offered Edison a monthly salary of 100 dollars and supported Edison's invention of the telegraph machine.

老板给爱迪生每月100美元的工资, 并支持爱迪生发明报机。

This stationmaster was also a telegraph operator, so to thank Edison, he taught Edison how to use the telegraph machine.

这位站长也是一名报员，所以为感谢爱迪生， 他教爱迪生如何使用报机。

At the best of times, Edison even developed telegraph machines for several competing companies at the same time because each company wanted his new inventions.

在最好的时候，爱迪生甚至同时为几家竞争公司开发报机，因为每家公司都想要他的新发明。