Telegraph and Travel: A Narrative of the Formation and Development of Telegraphic Communication Between England and India, Under the Orders of Her Majesty's Government, with Incidental Notices of the Countries Traversed by the LinesMacmillan, 1874 - 673 страница |
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Страница 119 - ... miles in length. To lay long submarine cables in a continuous length without intermediate stations has been found to answer no other purpose than that of greatly diminishing the speed of working and multiplying every imaginable risk both of manufacture and submersion. The Indian Government, acting under the judicious counsel of their scientific advisers, have wisely determined to divide the Persian Gulf cable into three sections, though its total length will not exceed 1500 statute miles.
Страница 119 - America were probably equal in electrical power to 2,000 battery cells, while now it is found inexpedient to use more than two or three cells in working the longest submarine lines in existence. Some of this great power was no doubt used in the vain hope of forcing signals through the line at a greater speed than the very slow and unremunerative rate at which it has alone been found possible to communicate through an unbroken length of 3,000 miles. The result was disastrous, but the experience, though...
Страница 59 - ... in Bessarabia, the Isle of Serpents, and the Delta of the Danube; signed at Paris, June igth 1857. PAGE 273 [2310] L/C. 4 Feb. 1858. 549 a Correspondence respecting the Establishment of a Line of Telegraph between Constantinople and Bussorah. PAGE 281 [2377] RA. (HC. 15 Ap.), HC. 1 1 May 1858. 5496 Correspondence respecting the Establishment of Telegraphic Communications in the Mediterranean and with India.* PAGE 289 [2406] RA.
Страница 120 - ... which exist in such abundance in warm latitudes, and which, when the cable is not protected against their attacks, eat every atom of the hemp, as in the case of the cable laid between Toulon and Algiers. Galvanizing the wire is in itself an almost perfect protection from rust — certainly for many years, as the good condition of the cable picked up off the Kooria Mooria Islands, a part of which was galvanized, showed, as far as the galvanizing was concerned. But, with the final protection both...
Страница 43 - ... true, by a few men, but he it is who devises and superintends the execution and the extension of the line from place to place. At one time his men are chased for miles by the enemy's cavalry — at another time they are attacked by the Sowars, and they and the wires are cut...
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Страница 43 - Pari passu, from post to post it has moved on with our artillery, and scarcely has the Commander-inChief established his head-quarters at any spot where he intended to stay for a few days when the post and the wire were established also. The telegraph was brought into communication with the Governorgeneral at Allahabad, with Outram at the...