THE TELEGRAPH JUBILEE.
Mr. Cecil Raikcs, Postmaster-General, presided, on 27th July, over a numerous and representative company assembled at a dinner givon in tho Holborn Restaurant to celebrate the jubilee of the electric telegraph. Mr. Edwin C'arke, as representing the past, and Mr. John Ponder and Sir Wm. Thompson, as representing the present, responded to " The Progress of Telo(jraphy," and among tho other spoakors wore Sir Lyon Plajfair, Professor Stokos, Mr, Shaw
Lefevre, M.P., Mr. Bruce, President of the Institute of Civil Engineers, Mr. Latimer Clark, and the Earl of Onslow. Mr. Raikes mado an interesting speech, tracing tho progress of telegraphic science from the five-needlo instrument by which Wheatstone succeeded in transmitting a message from Enston to Camden Town, down to the present age of universal land and cable communication and six-fold transmission. Mr. Pcnder mentioned that twenty years ago there were ouly 2000 miles of submarine telegraphs, while at proient there wore 115,000 miles. Between je.38,000,000 and .£39,000,000 had boen spent in putting cables at the bottom of the sea, in girding the earth five times, and in enabling a message to be sent round the world in 20 mlnutps. Of the 100,000,000 words sent over submarine cables, nine-tenth« were for commercial purposes.
THE TELEGRAPH JUBILEE.
Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 80, 1 October 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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