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  2. The Signal-Man - Wikipedia

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    "The Signal-Man" is a horror mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round. The story is told from a fictional first-person perspective. The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each ...

  3. The Signalman (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Signalman is a short film which is part of the British supernatural anthology series A Ghost Story for Christmas.Written by Andrew Davies, produced by Rosemary Hill, and directed by the series' creator, Lawrence Gordon Clark, it is based on the ghost story "The Signal-Man" (1866) by Charles Dickens, and first aired on BBC1 on 22 December 1976, the earliest airdate in the series relative to ...

  4. Mugby Junction - Wikipedia

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    Mugby Junction includes the famous ghost story "The Signal-Man" concerning a spectre seen beside a tunnel entrance. The signal-man of the title tells the narrator of a ghost that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes, and is a harbinger of, a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works.

  5. Optical telegraph - Wikipedia

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    The operators would move the semaphore arms to successive positions to spell out text messages in semaphore code, and the people in the next tower would read them. An optical telegraph is a line of stations, typically towers, for the purpose of conveying textual information by means of visual signals (a form of optical communication ).

  6. The Signal (2014 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Signal is a 2014 American science fiction thriller film directed by William Eubank, written by William and Carlyle Eubank and David Frigerio, and starring Brenton Thwaites and Laurence Fishburne. It premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival , and was theatrically released in the United States on June 13, 2014.

  7. Disappearing messages on Signal and Snapchat are cause for ...

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    Though Signal was founded in 2018, years after Snapchat, the end-to-end encrypted messaging app had 40 million monthly active by January of 2022, per the BBC, and over 100 million downloads on the ...

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  9. Wireless telegraphy - Wikipedia

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    A US Army Signal Corps radio operator in 1943 in New Guinea transmitting by radiotelegraphy. Wireless telegraphy or radiotelegraphy is the transmission of text messages by radio waves, analogous to electrical telegraphy using cables.