SCIENCE AND WAR.
The bombardment of Alexandria furnishes the first instance in which the actual progress of a naval battle has been reported by telegraph. A telegraph ship was included in the fleet before Alexanandria, and by the utilisation of the Mediterranean line of cable, the War Office in London and the civilised world were kept informed of the movements of the war vessels and the results of the firing. The nearest cable station from Alexandria was at Malta, distant about one thousand miles from the scene of the battle. A press despatch saj’s that when a telephone was attached to the Malta end of the cable the firing of the guns at Alexandria could be distinctly heard, though no oral communication was possible over that length of cable. It is not stated whether a telephone transmitter was used at the Alexandria end, or whether the general electrical disturbance, caused by the explosion of the great guns, so affected tbe cable as to report the shots, through the telephone at Malta.
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Patea Mail, 29 September 1882, Page 3
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171SCIENCE AND WAR. Patea Mail, 29 September 1882, Page 3
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