A Wire-Drawn Message
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Telegraphy, Government, Politics, Anaesthesia, Magic |
Impressed by the feat of the electric telegraph transmitting the 'President's Message' from 'one corner of America to the other', an accomplishment that took some thirty-six hours to complete. However, thinks that a far better test of the telegraph's powers would be to submit the invention to the ordeal of Thomas C Anstey's notoriously long speeches, an ordeal which will require the telegraph to take 'ether or chloroform, together with the magical aid of Robert Houdin'. |
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