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

全球的电报系统都崩溃，电报机蹦出火花，导致操作员触电。

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，电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.

但其无线电报员十五分钟前关掉电报机 睡觉去。

When Morse finally completed his telegraphic instrument, he went before Congress to show that it worked.

当摩尔最终完成电报机的发明时，他来到国会介绍其使用方法。

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

23岁时，他发明一种特殊的电报机并卖。

Well, it wasn't a powerful battery, but it could power up a telegraph machine.

好吧，那并不是一个强大的电池，但它可以为电报机供电。

So there were only telegraphs and the telegraph systems were sparking.

所以当时只有电报机，而且电报系统出现火花。

Do you have a telegram machine as well?

你们也有电报机吗？

So we never really noticed besides a few telegraphs going out and some pretty night shows.

所以我们基本上没有注意到，除几台电报机出问题和一些漂亮的夜空表演。

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电报机。

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电报机，使其能够发送和接收不同的音调。

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电报机的申请。

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

股票市场瞬息万变, 电报机故障耽误大量业务。

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, 并支持爱迪生发明电报机。

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

这位站长也是一名电报员，所以为感谢爱迪生， 他教爱迪生如何使用电报机。

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

继电报机之后，爱迪生公司的下一个支柱产品是留声机。

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，这家公司的电报机恰好坏。

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，如电话和电报机，这些仪器让游客一窥信号员的工作环境。

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电报机，称为双工电报。

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，爱迪生学会发电报，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电报机。