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The longest despatch ever cabled, it was sent by regenerating repeaters over four cables. "An unparalleled feat," said Newcomb Carlton, Western Union President.
The sun never sets on the British flag. Soon the voice of the monarch it symbolizes will reach to the uttermost parts of the earth and come back to the speaker. It was announced that at 11:30 A. M. Greenwich time, April 23, His Britannic Majesty would formally open...
Two immense weights, one of 1000 pounds for the works, the other of 1500 pounds to strike the gong, fall 80 feet a week to keep the clock going. It is Mr. Walford's duty to lift them up again. Two boxes of sand at the end of steel cables...
The largest electric light bulb ever made-22 in. high and 15 in. in diameter-side by side with the smallest, no larger than a grain of rice, was exhibited at the Sprague plant of the General Electric Company, East Orange, N. J. The monster bulb is of 150,000...
¶ A new device which automatically connects land telegraph lines with submarine cables made possible direct cable communication between London and Chicago.