THE QUICKEST TELEGRAM ON RECORD.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume VI, Issue 72, 14 October 1897, Page 2

THE QUICKEST TELEGRAM ON RECORD.

An article entitled “ The Telegraph Systems of the World ” appears in the “ Windsor Magazine.” As an example of “ what can be done in the way of transmission when the wires are free and the operators waiting,” the writer says :—“ Some years ago at a telegraph soiree, in the Albert Hall, a feature of the evening’s amusemc lit was the sending of a message to Teheran, in Persia, and back. A sending and a receiving instrument had bien put up in the hall and connected with the wires of the IndoEuropean Telegraph Company. This line crossed the Channel by cable to Germany, and then by land lines ran over Germany, South ltussia, Caucasus, Armenia, and Persia, to Teheran. At Teheran the wire was joined to a second lino cf the company, returning to London by the same route. The lines were cleared for the experiment, and, at a given signal, the key of sender was pressed by the Prince of Wales. The instant that the button of the instrument was touched, click went the receiver. The current had bteu to Persia and back !’.’