In 1850 Paul Julius Reuter founded the Reuters News Agency in Aachen which transferred messages between Brussels and Aachen using carrier pigeons.

According to some, results of keno games in great cities were sent to outlying villages and hamlets by carrier pigeons, resulting in its Chinese name 白鸽票 báigē piào, literally “ white dove ticket ”, pronounced baak-gap-piu in Cantonese ( which the Western spelling ' pak-ah-pu ' / ' pakapoo ' was based on ).

While telegraphy evolved, Reuter first founded the Reuters News Agency in Aachen, which transferred messages between Brussels and Aachen using carrier pigeons.

In 1851, the carrier pigeons were superseded by a direct telegraph link.

The German apothecary Julius Neubronner used carrier pigeons to deliver urgent medication.

The 30 carrier pigeons became unnecessary in 1983 because of the closure of one of the hospitals.

Before the advent of radio, carrier pigeons were frequently used on the battlefield as a means for a mobile force to communicate with a stationary headquarters.

In the 6th century BC, Cyrus, king of Persia, used carrier pigeons to communicate with various parts of his empire.

During the 19th-century Franco-Prussian War, besieged Parisians used carrier pigeons to transmit messages outside the city.

During the First and Second World Wars, carrier pigeons were used to transport messages back to their home coop behind the lines.

Homing pigeons are called messenger or carrier pigeons when they are used to carry messages.

The Egyptians and the Persians first used carrier pigeons 3, 000 years ago.

In Damietta, by the mouth of the Nile, the Spanish traveller Pedro Tafur saw carrier pigeons for the first time, in 1436, though he imagined that the birds made round trips, out and back.

Tipu Sultan used carrier pigeons.

When used as carrier pigeons in pigeon post a message is written on thin light paper and rolled into a small tube attached to the bird's leg.

The Dinotopian version of carrier pigeons.

In September 1917, the Ottomans caught one of Sarah's carrier pigeons and cracked the Nili code.

Prior to that, a similar system was deployed during the Franco-Prussian War which used carrier pigeons to send primitive microfilm strips across German lines, developed from French optician René Dagron's first patent granted for microfilm in 1859.

Her mother, Mary Manningham-Buller ( Viscountess Dilhorne ), trained carrier pigeons that were used to fly coded messages in World War II.

In the past, signalling skills have included the use of ; heliograph, Aldis lamp, semaphore flags, " Don R " ( Dispatch Riders ) and even carrier pigeons.

Calling for the confidential papers to be thrown overboard, Crisp dictated a message to be sent by the boat's four carrier pigeons: like many small ships of the era, the Nelson did not possess a radio set.

Within the tympanum of the antechamber's arch is the sculpted work The Tunnellers ’ Friends, which shows representations of animals that served during the war: reindeer, pack mules, carrier pigeons, horses, dogs, canaries, and mice, all above the inscription THE TUNNELLERS ’ FRIENDS, THE HUMBLE BEASTS THAT SERVED AND DIED.

), a fictional pressure group within GTA3 who are against the use of telephones, declares that the group uses carrier pigeons in the place of telephones, but that they keep going missing, implying that the first caller is, in fact, eating these pigeons.

The basic APC design was substantially expanded to an Infantry fighting vehicle ( IFV ) when properties of an armoured personnel carrier and a light tank were combined in one vehicle.

Improvised arrangements such as M113 personnel carriers with recoilless rifles were quickly replaced by missile carrier vehicles in the anti-tank role.

Others who were either killed or captured at the actual Battle were as follows: King Jean II ; Prince Philip ( youngest son and progenitor of the House of Valois-Burgundy ), Geoffroi de Charny, carrier of the Oriflamme, Peter I, Duke of Bourbon, Walter VI, Count of Brienne and Constable of France, Jean de Clermont, Marshal of France, Arnoul d ' Audrehem, the Count of Eu, the Count of Marche and Ponthieu Jacques de Bourbon taken prisoner at the Battle and died 1361, the Count of Étampes, the Count of Tancarville, the Count of Dammartin, the Count of Joinville, Guillaume de Melun, Archbishop of Sens.

The function of the nucleus as carrier of genetic information became clear only later, after mitosis was discovered and the Mendelian rules were rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century ; the chromosome theory of heredity was therefore developed.

While ballistic missiles were the preferred weapons for land targets, heavy nuclear and conventional tipped cruise missiles were seen by the USSR as a primary weapon to destroy US naval carrier battle groups.

In this game each side fielded eleven men, participants were allowed to pick up the inflated egg-shaped ball and run with it and the ball carrier was stopped by knocking him down or " tackling " him.

It was discontinued as a rank in these services during the postwar period, but as an appointment, the title " commodore " was then used to identify senior U. S. Navy captains who commanded squadrons of more than one vessel or functional air wings or air groups that were not part of a carrier air wing or air group.

Kido Butai operated as the IJN's main carrier battle group until four of its carriers were sunk at the Battle of Midway.

Specialized ships were developed to provide underway replenishment of fuel ( for the carrier and its aircraft ), ordnance, and other supplies necessary to sustain operations.

In 1985, the new port facilities were completed, and the USS Saratoga ( CV-60 ) was the first aircraft carrier to tie up.

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the single most important carrier of dengue fever, were reduced by 80 % in a 2010 trial of these GM mosquitoes in the Cayman Islands.

The barrels, a carrier, and a lock cylinder were separate and all mounted on a solid plate revolving around a central shaft, mounted on an oblong fixed frame.

The innovative features of the Gatling gun were its independent firing mechanism for each barrel and the simultaneous action of the locks, barrels, carrier and breech.

The ships were large enough to carry cargo and passengers on long ocean voyages, but still maintained speed and agility, making the longship a versatile warship and cargo carrier.

U. S. naval forces, including the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, were positioned off the coast of Somalia to provide support and to prevent any al-Qaeda forces escaping by sea.

Microwave radio relay lines and buried cable lines were constructed to create a network of wideband carrier trunk lines, which covered the entire country.

End-to-end analog telephone networks were first modified in the early 1960s by upgrading transmission networks with T1 carrier systems, designed to support the basic 3 kHz voice channel by sampling the bandwidth-limited analog voice signal and encoding using PCM.

Under British rule, efforts were undertaken to fight the Tsetse fly ( a carrier of sleeping sickness ), and to fight malaria and bilharziasis ; more hospitals were built.

Royal Marines Commandos were sent by air from England via Nairobi and 40 Commando came ashore from the aircraft carrier HMS Bulwark.

The First Doctor explained that if it were to land in the middle of the Indian Mutiny, it might take on the appearance of a howdah ( the carrier on the back of an elephant ).

Teleprinter circuits were generally leased from a communications common carrier and consisted of twisted pair copper wires through ordinary telephone cables that extended from the teleprinter located at the customer location to the common carrier central office.