The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World, Količina 4Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines Scientific American compiling department, 1912 |
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... miles long and con- taining six wires . In 1854 Sweden and Den- mark , Italy and Corsica , and Corsica and Sar- dinia were linked . In the same year the New York , Newfoundland , and London Tele- graph Company was incorporated , mainly ...
... miles long and con- taining six wires . In 1854 Sweden and Den- mark , Italy and Corsica , and Corsica and Sar- dinia were linked . In the same year the New York , Newfoundland , and London Tele- graph Company was incorporated , mainly ...
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... miles and laid it suc- cessfully . She then grappled the lost cable of the year before , recovering it from a depth of two miles , spliced it , and completed the task by landing the end at Heart's Content . Advance in Cable - Laying ...
... miles and laid it suc- cessfully . She then grappled the lost cable of the year before , recovering it from a depth of two miles , spliced it , and completed the task by landing the end at Heart's Content . Advance in Cable - Laying ...
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... miles of cable from Eng- land to Australia , via the Cape of Good Hope , at a cost of over $ 15,000,000 , was comparatively easy . Yet this great line may be traced from Land's End in England to Adelaide in South Australia , a distance ...
... miles of cable from Eng- land to Australia , via the Cape of Good Hope , at a cost of over $ 15,000,000 , was comparatively easy . Yet this great line may be traced from Land's End in England to Adelaide in South Australia , a distance ...
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... miles of ocean cables have been duplexed almost entirely on the Muirhead system . The increasing traffic across the Atlantic and the pressure of competition led next to an in- crease in the size of the copper " core " which conducts the ...
... miles of ocean cables have been duplexed almost entirely on the Muirhead system . The increasing traffic across the Atlantic and the pressure of competition led next to an in- crease in the size of the copper " core " which conducts the ...
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... miles west by north of Truxillo . It consists of an old and a new town , the former crowning the top of a hill , and surrounded by a strong wall flanked with towers , and the latter built round it on the lower slopes . The houses are ...
... miles west by north of Truxillo . It consists of an old and a new town , the former crowning the top of a hill , and surrounded by a strong wall flanked with towers , and the latter built round it on the lower slopes . The houses are ...
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