Where the telephone wires are overland the speed of transmission is at the rate of about 16,000 miles a second. Where the wires are through, cables under the sea, the speed is not more than 6000 miles -a second.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8704, 18 August 1906, Page 5
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