THE COST OF EXPERIMENTS
WHAT THE GOVERNMENT SPEND ON INVENTIONS.
Every year the British Government spend close en a quarter of a million in making experiments in various directions. Huge sums of money are spent by the postal department in experimenting with new telegraphic devices.
One of the latest telegraphic machines, known as the Murray, cost the Post Office over £50,000 in various experiments before it was perfected. It is the most rapid telegraphic machine In existence, foi by it three messages can be submitted simultaneously on to one wlr*. It was tried experimentally for thr<:6 years before being permanently adopted.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2338, 3 February 1913, Page 2
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