Telegraph is any apparatus or process to convey messages over long distances with no intermediary messenger.
Telegraph may also refer to:
Related to telegraphy
- Electrical telegraph, sends and receives messages via electric signals
- Printing telegraph, electrical telegraph that uses plain text instead of code
- Optical telegraph, sending visual signals with pivoting shutters in towers
- Hydraulic telegraph, based on the displacement of water in pipes, or on container water levels
- Engine order telegraph, device on a ship used by the pilot to signal engine speeds
Arts and entertainment
- Telegraphing (entertainment), giving a clear hint of the meaning or outcome of a dramatic action through acting
Music
- Telegraph (album), a 2005 album by Drake Bell (includes the title song)
- Telegraphs (band), an English alternative-rock band
- "Telegraph" (song), a 1983 single by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
- Telegraph Melts, a 1986 album by Jandek
Periodicals
- The Telegraph (disambiguation), a list of newspapers called The Telegraph, Daily Telegraph or Sunday Telegraph
- Evening Telegraph, a list of newspapers with that title
- Morning Telegraph, a list of newspapers with that title
Places
- Telegraph, Isles of Scilly, a settlement on the island of St Mary's, England
- Telegraph, Texas, a ghost town in Kimble County, Texas, United States
- Telegraph Avenue, in Alameda County, California, United States
- Telegraph City, an unincorporated community in Calaveras County, California, United States
- Telegraph Cove, a community on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
- Telegraph Creek, a community in British Columbia, Canada
- Telegraph Peak (California), in the San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, United States
- Telegraph Peak (Lander County, Nevada)
- Telegraph Range, group of hills on the Nechako Plateau, British Columbia Interior, Canada
- Telegraph Plateau, a region of the North Atlantic
- Telegraph Column (Damascus), Syria, is a commemorative monument
- Telegraph Canyon Formation, a geologic formation in Nevada
- Telegraph House, a historic hotel located in Baddeck, Nova Scotia
- Telegraph House (Taganrog), a building in Taganrog, Rostov region
- Telegraph Island, in the Elphinstone Inlet
- Telegraph Hill (disambiguation), various places
- Telegraph Road (disambiguation), various roads
- Telegraph Building (disambiguation), various buildings
- Telegraph Peak (disambiguation), various peaks
- Télégraphe station, a Paris Métro station
Other uses
- Telegraph (sports), to unintentionally alert an opponent to one's immediate situation
- Telegraph (1914 sternwheeler), a steamboat in Oregon, United States
- Telegraph (sternwheeler 1903), a steamboat in Oregon and Washington, United States
- Telegraph Media Group, publisher of UK newspapers, previously Telegraph Group
- Telegraph plant, a tropical Asian shrub
- HMS Telegraph
See also
- Telegram (disambiguation)
- Telegraph code, a character encodings used to transmit information through telegraphy machines
- Telegraph Avenue (novel), a 2012 book by Michael Chabon
- El Telégrafo (disambiguation)