Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-03-11
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Wonderful Contribution: 10 Human
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A DEVELOPMENT i OF RECENT YEARS E ll;

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Telephone, Communication Between
'thea:United States ;s;and Cuba, Now
Practieabie-control Of Cable Land-'
inaN Station a Great: Commercial ADJ
vantaae.: -. sc :.2:ll = i>.s. -.
Though; the slayinG of the !, black,
prosaic-looki1ig cables under; the him.
dred. miles, OF :sea water that separate
Key West. zfronr: Havana has little Of:
romance In it to the'casual observer
it: represents. an Important ster i'm
mans -conauest'A.o of space and tipe,.'
says ulletir:issuedafrom the Wash
.ihgton;. .DlhGS Headquarters Of the
National Geographic; Society. e.
a"These. cables will for the; first time
carry. thes sveiieesa6tS mainland America
totthe :Queen :ofa the: Antilles"s2and
bring back answerinsawoices:;' and at
the same time they will be carrying.
thessoundSof spoken words for great;
erirdistance f-u,ider water: than they
have ever%been4 carried before. It is
the greatest ,chapter in thei:far from
finished N.story. OF; mans struggle ,:to.
fling. his thoushts-and; even the &in--
donations thar measure his feelings
to his fellows at the end <of the earth.
"Progressin spanning the; salt water
that divides. ttIe;wnrld: intoswhat were
once idea astight' coriapartments-and
which now know the 5fgossip* OF: each.
others; market places forums: and
boudoirsi as soon sas'Stsey-: are: Enown
at horne-Tsta rtsd In: ear earnest only three;
quarters; OF a centuEYSasoe: Z. go after sap :.
;uel F. Be- Morse proved W1th: sne. -teie-:
graph thatHdasstanee esssoYer.*land were.
slight barriers lpfseHcnanging ,stghals.
tits perhaps. LITTLE Known t that Morse
also was one ofhheI tEst GO: experiment
with under-wsaferAM s = slgnaahns@ "'::Aftef
successfully sending messages; through
a"wire under part: :7of New YORK. mar.
Dor from Castle Garden (now the New.
York City Aduarium3' ''toa Governors.
Island. he gane:ft as"hls 'oplnlon that
signaling over properly paiit' capie
between: Europe and America snould
be possible. .:tss %:;p.::E.,' s:"'',
First" Atlantic Cable a Failure.
THE first effort to. realize Morse s
prediction, in3 ytheglate .1orties, were
failures: Because, neither 'cable-mak-
ing nor 'cable-layipg had been master
ed, the, cable broke ;.again and again
and the broken ,endawas finally aban-
doned in nid-SAtlantic. The first COM
mercially. successful: submarine !, cable
was laid 2as-the result Of the much less
ambitious sdesire toEconnect England,
and France. This cable, about 25 miles
long. was laid under the Straits; of
Dover in: 1851. Then came other short
cab1esc Italy: toEeorsica" and Sardinia.
Sardinia to- Africa: Scotland to Ire.
land%and ra$lengtt, in the Black Sea. -.
s SIN, 1857 Europe. and. America were
lrst connected by cable and messages
were exchanged for, several months.
But the insulation of the cable was
DESTROYED by currents Of too great
strength. and the two continents were
again without electric communication
for nearly ten! years An attempt to
connect Europe with India through
the Red Sea was the: next ambitious
cable project. but it, too, was fail
ure. The first successful. long cable,
chiefly useful -.sfors commercial. pur-
poses, was. ;iaid, ,fittingly enough In
the waters of the Mediterranean where
commercial nat{Sns first sprang up
It'extended from Malta to Alexandria
and was opened in 1861. :. :."
mo Cable News Of Civil War
Europe" remained without cable
news from the United States during
the Civil war, but:in 1S6G,the Atlantic
was finally electrically bridged, and
the connection between the old and
the new worlds has since been contin-
nous. In 1859 cable wasslaid from
France To the Umited States. Other
cables were laid from the British Isles,
and later direct connection was estab-
Bshed between Germany and America.
Rv the beginning of the World War
thirteen transatlantic cables were in