RUGBY STATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2987, 16 January 1926, Page 1

RUGBY STATION.

ENGINEERING TRIUMPH.

LONDON, Jan. 1. “A triumph of British scientific engineering skill” is how the wireless correspondent of the Times describes Rugby. “Wc have now,” he says, “a station of high Imperial importance, for Rugby is capable, of communicating instantaneously with the whole Empire. Though at present distant parts are unable to answer direct, the importance of the achievement can hardly be exaggerated.” Whatever wireless developments may occur in the future, Rugby will remain for many years a great national possession, capable of taking advantage of the changing methods in wireless communication. “ROUND THE GLOBE.”

Rugby’s first Foreign Office bulletin was wirelessed at midnight round the globe. Three typewritten sheets left Whitehall, via the War Office’s underground pneumatic tube, to the Central Telegraph Office, where an official was operating a punching machine. He struck holes, representing the Morse code, through a strip of paper which simultaneously fed the electrical impulse machine which was .directly connected with Rugby’s giant transmitting machinery. The Australian receiving staff would be reading the first words of the sentence before the end had been punched in London.