Nearly everybody is on the telephone nowadays in the big cities of America, and the number of wires that are necessary to link up the multitudes of homes with exchanges has grown to something tremendous. A new telephone cable has just been made by the American Telegraph Company which consists of a sheath two and a half inches in diameter, containing 1818 pairs of wires. There are 18 smaller tubes inside the lrig cable, each of which contain 10L pairs of wires. Previous to this, the largest telephone cables contained only. 1212 jjairs of wires,
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1929, Page 3
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