These were the first off-island microwave links.

The first flashforward which the audience sees is originally believed to be a flashback, as flashbacks had been the only way of telling off-island stories up until that point.

The only communications off-island were via telegraph cables from 1858, when the Channel Island Telegraph Company opened the first telegraph cable to the Isle of Portland via Guernsey and Alderney, up until 1931.

In his first six weeks in office he presided over 96 conferences, attended 35 official breakfasts and dinners, studied and signed 285 official papers and personally took 312 telephone calls.

The first shrill ring of the telephone brought Harold out into the hall.

The first known telephone line in Manchester was established in July 1883 between Burr and Manley's store at Manchester Depot and the Kent and Root Marble Company in South Dorset.

The President spent much of the week-end at his summer home on Cape Cod writing the first drafts of portions of the address with the help of White House aids in Washington with whom he talked by telephone.

In the mid-1870s, a form of amplitude modulation — initially called " undulatory currents "— was the first method to successfully produce quality audio over telephone lines.

One of the first plastics made from synthetic components, Bakelite was used for its electrical nonconductivity and heat-resistant properties in electrical insulators, radio and telephone casings, and such diverse products as kitchenware, jewelry, pipe stems, and children's toys.

" Theorist Basil Liddell Hart considered that the most important aspect of the operation was the degree to which the Ottoman commanders were first denied intelligence on the British preparations for the attack through British air superiority, and then crippled by air attacks on their headquarters and telephone exchanges, paralysing their attempts to react to the rapidly deteriorating situation.

The first major model for communication was introduced by by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver for Bell Laboratories in 1949 The original model was designed to mirror the functioning of radio and telephone technologies.

The first rule is used in many ( but not all ) dictionaries, the second in telephone directories ( so that Wilson, Jim K appears with other people named Wilson, Jim and not after Wilson, Jimbo ).

This term was first used by AT & T in commerce on July 5, 1960 and then was introduced to the public on November 18, 1963, when the first push-button telephone was made available to the public.

Early wet cells powered the first telegraph and telephone systems, and were the source of current for electroplating.

* 1878 – The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.

* 1968 – In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.

Site of the first telephone exchange in City Mill Lane.

Then one day, his wife received a telephone call from Patti Palmer, first wife of Jerry Lewis.

" He found out that the malicious connotations were present at MIT in 1963 already ( quoting The Tech, a MIT Student Magazine ) and then referred to unauthorized users of the telephone network, The Newsweek article appears to be the first use of the word hacker by the mainstream media in the pejorative sense.

In 1889 George Gillmore, formerly an electrician for the GPO's Manx telegraph operations, was granted a licence by the Postmaster General to operate the Isle of Man's first telephone service.

Previously, on April 1985, Japanese digital telephone exchange hardware made by Fujitsu was used to experimentally deploy the world's first I interface ISDN.

The first milestones in the Japanese media history were newspapers in the Meiji period, the first being the Nagasaki Shipping List & Advertiser, founded 1861 in Nagasaki, with the telegraph and telephone following suit.

* 2002 – Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.

* 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

* 1937 – The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London

The Cobble Hill Tunnel was part of the first rail link between New York City and Boston, Massachusetts.

Wilhelm Grimm is noted to be the first person to ever link Beowulf with Irish folklore.

At the end of September 2003, the first part of High Speed 1, a high speed link to the Channel Tunnel and on to France and Belgium, was completed, significantly adding to the rail infrastructure of the country.

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Following the 1852 Telegraph Act, Canada's first permanent transatlantic telegraph link was a submarine cable built in 1866 between Ireland and Newfoundland. Telegrams were sent through networks built by Canadian Pacific and Canadian National.

Shadows of Yog-Sothoth is important not only because it represents the first published addition to the boxed first edition of Call of Cthulhu, but because its format defined a new way of approaching a campaign of linked RPG scenarios involving actual clues for the would-be detectives amongst the players to follow and link in order to uncover the dastardly plots afoot.

The invention of Cartesian coordinates in the 17th century by René Descartes ( Latinized name: Cartesius ) revolutionized mathematics by providing the first systematic link between Euclidean geometry and algebra.

The first permanent ARPANET link was established on November 21, 1969, between the IMP at UCLA and the IMP at the Stanford Research Institute.

When experiencing an event for the first time, a link is formed in the hippocampus allowing us to recall that event in the future.

When the database was first opened, the program was handed back a link to the first record in the database, which also contained pointers to other pieces of data.

One of the first to discover and publish a link between man-made electric current and magnetism was Romagnosi, who in 1802 noticed that connecting a wire across a voltaic pile deflected a nearby compass needle.

Catullus, the first of these, is an invaluable link between the Alexandrine school and the subsequent elegies of Tibullus and Propertius a generation later.

The Essex kings issued coins that echoed those issued by Cunobelin simultaneously asserting a link to the first century rulers while emphasising independence from Mercia.

It was the first direct link between Australia and Great Britain.

In favour of the Synoptic chronology is that in the earliest Christian traditions relating to the Last Supper in the first letter of Paul to the Corinthians, there is a clear link between Passion of Jesus, the Last Supper and the Passover lamb.

Its first dish, Antenna One ( dubbed " Arthur "), was built in 1962 to link with Telstar.

if the user first accesses the front page of the website with HTTP where he only after that clicks an HTTPS link to the log-in page, the session has already been compromised.

The Medtronic REAL-Time System is the first to link a continuous monitor with an insulin pump system.

The CJ-4 exists only as a 1951 prototype, and is the " missing " link between the flat-fendered CJ-2A and CJ-3B and the round-fendered CJ-5 first introduced in 1955.

After hearing a lecture on the subject of Lovelock's results, they embarked on research that resulted in the first published paper that suggested a link between stratospheric CFCs and ozone depletion in 1974, and later shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( with Paul Crutzen ) for their work.

Green was also the first to link lucid dreams to the phenomenon of false awakenings.