WHAT A TELEGRAPHIST LIFTS.
A curious calculation has been made by Mr Kivell, the telegraphist, who, it will be lemembered, reached an average of forty-two words during the Public Works Statement transmission. Reckoning the instalment key at half-a-pound, and taking as an average that the key has to be pressed down four times for each letter, it is calculated that he lifted 3841bs per minute, or 50401bs per hour. The total time taken in the transmission was 217 minutes, and at the rate given above this would come out at Btons 2cwt. and 3qrs. that would have to be lifted during that time. We understand that Mr Kivell received a ietter from the head of his department acknowledging the merit of his work, which, so far as he knew, had not been approached in the colony.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2826, 12 October 1885, Page 3
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