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Show It is a frequent remark that inventive genius has only begun experimenting with that wondrous force, electricity. Notwithstanding the great discoveries made, each new development seems more marvelous than the last. Now we have announced an improved system of submarine cables, whereby, through the use of submarine repeaters and relays and mathematical type-printers, the speed of transmission can be increased to over five hundred words per minute. Think of lowering into ocean's depths a small waterproof bronze globe containing a simple mechanism, and making that perform the functions of an office and two operators at the bottom of the sea, thus gaining the advantage of a double current and working speed four times increased. Nothing less than that is proposed, and a new American Cable Company has been organized to carry forward this revolution, which, if it proves to be what it promises, will make a dispatch to London or Paris cost no more than one to Cincinnati or Washington. The quadruplex system of telegraphy seemed incredible enough at first, but at this rate we may expect to live to see it counted as only an insignificant step in our inventive progress. - N. Y. (New York) Examiner. |