| Show LAYING TELEPHONE WIRE cavalry officers make an experiment peri ment in germany an interesting experiment of installing a telephone by trotting cavalry was recently successfully undertaken by some prussian uhland between berlin and potsdam two sets of one officer and two commissioned noncommissioned non officers proceeded in the early morning respect ively from berlin to P each set says the scientific american was equipped with a complete lione apparatus which one of the men carried in a leather case on his chest be sides the requisite quantity of thin wire alie end of the wire was connected with the respective towns telephone stations and the wire was by means of a fork fixed at the end of the lance thrown over the tops of the trees malonff the road As each kilometer of wire was thus suspended a halt was made and it was ascertained whether there was connection with the station A new kilometer of wire was then connected with the former and on went the men the two sets met at teltow the wires having been respectively ively tested with their respective stations were connected and telephonic connection between berlin and potsdam was established the distance is about twenty axes and the whole thin was done in about four hours |
