—lt has been estimated iliat it would take 680,000 full moons to give the same strength of light as we receive from the sun. The longest span of telegraph wire in the world is 6009 ft in length. It rnns over the River Keitnan, in India.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3590, 2 January 1923, Page 43
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