The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1913. PROGRESS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 74, 4 April 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1913. PROGRESS.

Wonderful progress lias been made in telegraphy of late and almost every week some new triumph is announced to help annihilate distance and link up distant places. One of the latest inventions is in connection with submarine telegraphy, and by means of it the Morse dot and dash signals can be used on Jong submarine cables, so that messages can be sent direct from London to New York or San Francisco, or right round the world if so desired. This invention is the outcome of thirty-six years’ thought, study and experiment on the part oi Mr J. L. Gott, chief engineer to cue of the big cable companies, and, it is said, surpasses in importance anything which lias been added to submarine telegraphy since Kelvin and Varley first made the operation oi long-distance cables possible fifty-five years ago. At the present time a message sent from London to New York goes to Weston-super-Mare, is there relaid to Waterviile, on the coast of Kerry, whence it is sent over the Atlantic to Cause, Nova Scotia, by Lord Kelvin’s syphon-recorder, by which tho message appears as a series of wavy lines. Mr Gott dispenses with tho syphon-recorder altogether, and his apparatus renders it possible for messages to be despatched instantaneously from Loudon to New York. This lias already been done, and Mr Gott says that lie has talked direct from an office in Gracechurch street to New York, tho signals being as clear as if they had been sent from a town a dozen miles away. The saving in both time and labour should prove enormous. Whereas at Waterviile five cables are pouring in messages which have to be written out by

out' operator and handed over to another for re-transmission, it will now be possible to delegate one cable tc one land-line. At the present time it is possible by having men stationed at the instruments, and all on the look-out for the signal, to get an answer from New York in half a minute, but this can, by means of Golt’s invention, be done automatically. Mi Got; states that a very great point will be the elimination of errors, an I ihe prevention of confusion of tlit ignals, and again, anyone who knows the ordinary Morse system can work is. while ability to use the svpiion system needs special training.