WIRELESS TELEPHONE.
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT.
WORLD-WIDE CONVERSATION COMING NEARER.
LONDON, Jan. 20
World-wide telephonic conversation has been brought appreciably nearer by an important development in international telephony when the transAtlantice service was extended to the Continent.
Hitherto tho United States, Cuba and Canada w r ere able to speak only to the chief cities in Britain, but now they are in direct communication with Brussels and Antwerp. It is the consummation of many months of research and experiment. Messages from Antwerp to Cuba travel by a land line and cable to London, thence to Rugby, and by wireless across the Atlantic to Maine, thence to Cuba, via New York, by cable, and a land line without interruption.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 45, 21 January 1928, Page 9
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119WIRELESS TELEPHONE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 45, 21 January 1928, Page 9
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