BRITISH ASSOCIATION.
TELEGRAPHY SYSTEMS. COMPARED. iJj Cable—Press Association—Copyright 'Received 25, 9.10 p.m Sydney, August 20. At the Science Congress Sir Oliver Lodge opened a discus#! on oh wireless telegraphy, comparing wireless and etlier telegraphy. The one wat? like shouting a message .outside, and the othw whispering in a tube. The difference. was so great and tho method of shouting so natural, tiiat wireless miglbt easily have been discovered firet. Then cabled tele'graph had been an improvement thereon. Wireless -was much cheaper, | but lacked secrecy. I Sir Douglas Muwson oipon/ed a. discussion on Antarctica, illustrated by many beautiful lantern pictures. lie . 'said that geology indicated' that th" •South Polar regions were onee attached to Australia. Had land connection been | maintained, cold o,ir plateaux would have made the southern part of Australia unbearable, to livv ' in.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 26 August 1914, Page 8
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134BRITISH ASSOCIATION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 26 August 1914, Page 8
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