SUBMARINE TELEGRAPHY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 24 April 1913, Page 5

SUBMARINE TELEGRAPHY.

VANCOUVER, April 14. A new mode of telegraphic transmission, of which Mr John Cott, consulting engineer of the Commercial Cable Co., is the inventor, made it possible to-day for Vancouver to talk instantly with' London, a distance'of 7000 miles. Some idea of the rapidity with which communication can be carried on many be gathered from the fact that within four minutes of the message being despatched to London, a reply was received at Vancouver. The details of the invention are, of course, secret, but this much is known, that it repeats the cable signs to the land instruments, thus saving much time. If the invention is adopted the transmission of cables between London and Australia will be considerably expedited.