NOVEL TELEGRAPHY.
The London correspondent of the ‘ Sydney Morning Herald ’ writes “ Several foreign powers are directing their attention to the practicability of establishing telegraph stations in midocean, by which messages can be sent from any part of the sea along the line of the cable to the terminal points on shore, and vice versa , so that communication with iron-clads, mail steamers, and vessels, when out at sea, may be established. The invention consists of a hollow sectional column, with base plate attached by ball and socket joint, which column is lowered into the water, and anchored rigidly to the ground. The branch cable is coupled to the main cable, and carried along the column to the surface of the water, to be there connected with instruments on board the vessels. By this invention it is proposed to control naval and strategical movements, while a ship in distress could communicate her exact position, the nature of her disasters, and thus procure assistance.”
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Evening Star, Issue 4081, 25 March 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)
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161NOVEL TELEGRAPHY. Evening Star, Issue 4081, 25 March 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)
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