Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-03-26
ANOTHER STARTLING INVENTION.
One Cable Wire--.A Whole Newspaper
Photographed in Half an Hour.
Boston Post, March II.

One Cable Wire---A Whole Newspaper
Photographed in Haif an Hour.
Boston Post, March H.
We are enabled to lay before the read
ers of the Post this morning piece Of
exclusive intelligence which will be
found of intense and universal interest.
don, and indicates that the old and new
world are about to hail the approaching
dawn of cheap telegraphy on land and
under sea between and throughout, all
the countries of the civilized globe. but
more particularly across the Atlantic
Ocean between Europe and America
We learn that the American Gable COM
pany of New York, through its general
agent, who is now in London, has just
closed, signed and sealed, one Of the
most important contracts that was ever
connected with the subject of telegraph
ing, and by which the new company has
secured the exclusive right to che use
Of new invention Or process, for send
ing messages by cables or otherwise.
One party to the contract guarantees to
send ten messages Of twenty words each
per minute through the conducting wire
L i a.
This is the minimum speed stated in the
contract; but it is said that at the maxi
mum speed what could be sent in thirty
minutes would be equal to the number
Of words contained in one number of
the London Times or the New York
Herald. And it is also asserted that by
this process an entire number of either
of the above named journals could be
dispatched through the cable from New
York to London or Paris, or from Lon
don to New York, and be reproduced
at those points in fac smile, on stere-
otyped block or plate, complete and
ready to be printed from in thirty min
utes, and at a trifling expense. This
would make an average rate of about
two thousand words per minute.
What has enabled this wonderful pro-
cess or invention to be brought to per-
lection and put to practical use is the
new systems and inventions now con-
trolled by the American Cable compa-
ny, these latter instruments serving as
the basis Of the new discovery. The
above named company has, we are in
formed, an exclusive right to the use
on all Of its proposed cables of both of
these most wonderful inventions, but
the general agent owns and controls all
the other rights of both inventions IN
ali countries and for all purposes. It is
now believed that with the combined
use Of these two inventions the new ca
BILE company will be able to reduce the
tariff for cable messages between New
York and the five different countries
which are to be connected directly by
its cables to from three to five cents per
word and pay dividends of from
eight to twenty per cent. on its total
capital. We take great and undisguised
satisfaction in the fact that an American
company is to be the first to enjoy the
distinction and reap the benefits of the
introduction to the world of these two
inventions, concerning which more full
information is yet to be received. They
will be instruments in bringing about
marvellous Announcements in the distri-
button Of news and private communi-
cations by Geographic methods through
out the world. The great Importance
of this discovery may, perhaps, be bet
ter appreciated from the additional
statement that at the moment Of sign
ing the document of transfer to the
American company through the gen
eral agent, the inventor was offered for
his process so large sum as s400, 900
by the Anglo company, through parties
interested in the latter. Inasmuch as
it could not have been used by the An
glo company for Jack of the proper
electric instruments, the benefit Of it
would of course have been lost to the
world. We understand that a company
is to be formed in London, with large
capital, to bring ever and operate all
other rights of the invention outside of
those held by the American Cable COM
pany 1t is evident tEat ocean tele
graphy is yet in its infancy, and Ameri-
cans will have reason to feel proud Of
seeing the promised revolution in the
business set on foot by a company that
bears their cOuntry's name.