Sentences with phrase «forth along a wire»
A good strategy is to remember the old - fashioned telegraph, where communication went back and forth along a wire.
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Where railroads had been obliged to maintain horses and riders every five miles along the track to race back and forth to warn engineers of impending collisions, the «singing wire» could now control the flow of trains, and not incidentally, their cargoes, so that whole new national distribution systems were possible.
It tells the story of famed French tightrope walker Philippe Petit, who, in August 1974, hung — somehow — a solid wire between the (at that time) almost - completed World Trade Center towers in lower Manhattan and then, for almost 45 minutes, performed the impossibly dangerous feat of walking back and forth along its length.