TRANSATLANTIC TELEGRAPHY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6382, 3 December 1907, Page 9

TRANSATLANTIC TELEGRAPHY.

Now flint wirolc-fw trlogrnpji.y is nn >astunmi siif-rcfin, it is in I f’r-s( ji: -rl'» rc.virvv tho Tiiriotu* singes in Mie lii story of T-.-.iisuHnnfic us!i)u lulu.;riip'iv.

Tho fir it enlile ncross tho Atliuilie was roninlotnl in 18 r iß. It was (hen geriernlIv thought that the problem of Tratrsaflantic oablo tolography hml neen Folvfld. Thus parlic-nliir venture, however, was doomuil to failuri? after a liter mf two or throe months, whoa it breathed its laet. It was not until 1866. eight years aftnnvM'ds. tiiat a cable was laid whicii, though it broke from lime to lime, proved of commercial value. Several attempts were made prior to 1858 to establish a Transatlantic, connection, and. after a brief tipcll of realisation in that year, repeated schemes wore evolved, t In. 1665 a. part of n cable was laid and lost, but it was subsequently recovered and joined up the following year to further cables and tlio connection completed. Tin speed of the IS6G cable was very Blow, at Jinst being about eight words per minute. The speed now, bo waver, is considerably higher. With regard to the evolution ot wireless telegraphy, it was in i'JOl that Mr Marconi first received signals aoroes tno Atlantic, tho signals being received m Newfoundland; and now, six years afterwards, the stations are doing commercial service. At tho commencement of tho wireless service an average ot thirty to thirtyfive worda per minute is being transmitted and received, and in time this ipeed will bo ommidorably increased.