SUBMARINE CABLES.
When the first Atlantic cable was projected the great astronomer and mathematician, Sir George Biddcll Airy, who was then AstronomerRoyal, was consulted. His opinion was that it was "mathematically impossible to submerge the cable to the requisite depth, and that, if it were possible, no signal could be transmitted through so great a length." England and America are now connected by about twenty cables, and the Commercial Gable Company announce their intention of laying down one more between Valentia, Cov.nty Kerry, and Causo, Nova Scotia. It is evidently the opinion of the company that wireless telegraphy is not destined very, speedily to supplant the older system. And in this they have certainly something to go on ; for the advent of the former was accompanied by a great development of cable extension. There are in all about 260,000 miles of cable in existence at the present time, and of these some 100,000 miles hav3 been laid within the last ten years—a fact not very widely known. —"Liverpool Post."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 440, 17 February 1912, Page 6
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169SUBMARINE CABLES. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 440, 17 February 1912, Page 6
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