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Show Cables Contain Much Wire. It is estimated that the total length of wire in the sheathing and core of the world's cables made since their introduction in-troduction in 1857 is sufficient to reach from the earth to the moon. Where the sea is about three miles deep, and the ship is steaming at its usual rate, in paying out a new line, it has been found that over two and a half hours pass before the cable reaches the bed of the sea. ( By the time the cable has settled to rest the ship is 25 miles away. |