PROBABLE USES OF THE TELEGRAPH.
The following item was published in the “ Scientific American,” October 26ch, 1867: — Why should not every house have its telegraph wire ? When gas was first applied to purposes of illumination it was used only in the public buildings and streets, and even now on the continent of Europe it has been introduced but sparingly into private dwellings. Why may not the telegraph wire be extended and diffused —if we may say so—as the gas pipe has been f Suppose a network of such wires laid from a central point in the city to the library or sitting room of every dwelling, and an arrangement made for collecting news similar to that controlled by the associated press. Through the wires, then, this news might be instantly communicated to each family, without the work of time rendered necessary to put it into type, print it, and distribute it by means of carriers. A fire, a murder, a riot, the result of an electisn, would be simultaneously known in every part of the city. Of course this would do away with newspapers, but what of that ? All things have their day, and why should such ephemeral things as uewspipers be an exception to the rule ?
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1865, 14 February 1880, Page 2
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207PROBABLE USES OF THE TELEGRAPH. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1865, 14 February 1880, Page 2
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