Punch,  42 (1862), 149.

Talk About the Telegraph

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Telegraphy, Engineering, Communication, Internationalism


    Discusses an article in the Standard reporting on a conversazione at which the possibility of a trans-Atlantic telegraph was considered, and an article in the Observer which describes how news is received in England from America by mail (between America and Ireland) and telegraph (between Ireland and England). Noting that 'we can't bridge the Atlantic with a telegraph wire', presents another extract explaining how Mr Silver and his firm propose a new network of overland and submarine telegraphs (which exploit a new 'ebonite insulator' on the telegraph post) to expedite telegraphic signals from Ireland. Anticipates that 'If they continue to improve our means of wiredrawn intercourse' then 'discourse with distant countries' will not be far off.



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