CABLEPHONE

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 December 1929, Page 11

CABLEPHONE

TRIUMPH OF SCIENCE. LONDON, November 14. The latest triumph of science in the transmission of the human voice is now being perfected, says the “Daily Mail. It will enable a Londoner to converse with a. person in New York directly and secretly by cable. Hitherto, the failure of submarine cables to transmit the spoken word effectively beyond 200 miles has .given wireless telephony its opportunity in long-distance trans-ocean communications, but the introduction of a loaded cable tenfolding the speed of transmission of Morse messages- has given the cables a new lease of life which, within a few years, will enable them to be coupled with telephoning. The latest revolution is due to the experts of the American Bell Telephone Co., who developed from the loaded Permalloy cable a new series of alloys whose combination is called Perminvar. The telephone-cable will go from New York, via Nova Scotia, to Newfoundland. From there it will jump 1800 miles to a French port, and then to County Mayo, Ireland. It will be carried across Ireland, and then will go under the sea to Glasgow, where it will be linked with the main .trunk to London.