SPEED IN TELEGRAPHY.

Mataura Ensign, 20 March 1909, Page 3

SPEED IN TELEGRAPHY.

■ OIUKNTAI.S TO ()((•IDKNTAL.S." "An iiitoivMiii" dcmon-naiion <n diroel ioicejapliie ...jiiinnnicatinn 1,.--I , wr ' , '» ' don :ili.| Karachi. Delia, u .distam- oHM miles, was .die. recently at Hi,) offices ol j|„. Indo-huro-poan li'it;»raph Company in Old Hm.i,l streel,- says the l-.,.i,1.,,' t ~,.,-.^1 „ ,u.1..1 1t , <•) ill" <dase.„« Herald.- -Hitherto it, has been necessary to t-.-i.:.nsmir ilio messages at points on |he 1,-le Hl aphie T 1 ■ :iHlionjrli siuco l!)l« direct workinn, has been in existence lict ivi-cii Kim;hmd ami Teheran, :)SIIO miles away "\ [little more than a year a;o. a line'lron, Tehera,, to the Persian „,„„„,., ~,,„. ,k-H,,bat. . v,a Ye,,l and Kcrman <-'-' l miles) was completed and shortly i.'.";!?-;,' I '.' 1 "r joi i"."'' "I- will, an- )■.., ~""' '™"' Ki,r:ir ' lll extemliinr over i'-,""" s - "'-Mx-i-iiiieiits were earned on \VI ' !/' "''J""*,"' osl«l.li s l,i„ K direct ~ - relel, „, „-„, am , tilis ; s , "" :;■ done successfully. —.li.v linkino up with the wires of the ll, "' l «» '■overmmnt at Karachi direct. '"""'inmcation can be l,a,| , i. entta, ISnmbav and other i,„ ' ,''" dia Recoil,' "" K '" '"- ws est, •\*"'""" u "" "-'l'' Karm-I.i ~„ i- .i V ' t '° lv "rds were ini"l'ately sent here, the W] ,st ~' ,'■■■» mnent traiismiUi,,,- clearly ~, thr i.ui ol 111 won s a minute r'-.i,,.,, :«•'» then called and "mdiosac ' ab-o switched o„ to ivceiv,. ', Lh.J;", ■li-om :> distance ol 71(10 „iile. fhe .operators in Manchester w-ero ovidciiv surprised. i,„- they pi-elac-d the • knowlcdyino; with the ovn,v s words 'Hv Cad!' '

••ISmnbay the,, oblioed lls lvill| ~„. inlornialion I hot the weather wis line and that the el„ck poimo,! to' HI ', :!'•»'• The a„„ihilati!„i of time ''nd spae- seemed complete when IV e were |iexf hrou.h, into direct commnniciul,,, "V t alculta with Kanrtoon and received li-om that distant ..,„,( ()„. | n5 t.,,,(.,,-,. ons message :-'(!oo ( l wishes to fhc'oc••'dentals Iron, ihe Orienials.' AVe had thus a -.-liislnetory experim.-nl, „,,,.,. ;l direct wire about 77Df) mil,., i„ lem-ih luniiim, ihroiinh many climates :7nd count,-,,.-.. An,,,,,.; other places .spoken to was f onsiantinople. where snow was fallinii at ihe moment- of ronmmiiiealion.