Miraculous Telegraphing.
When the first electric telegraph was established the speed of transmission was from four to five words a minute with the five-needle instruments. In ]849 the average rote for newspaper messages was seventeen words a minute. The' 'present paco of tho olectric tolegraph between Lori don and Dublin, where the jAYheatstono instrument is employed, reaches 462 words ; and thus what wae regarded as miraculous sixty years ago has multiplied a hundredfold in half «, century.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 330, 2 January 1889, Page 3
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76Miraculous Telegraphing. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 330, 2 January 1889, Page 3
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