Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 631
which was successfully laid by the GreatEastern, and was soon joined to a Newfoundland shore cable. Therewere now two cables connecting England and America, and one connect-ing America and France has since been laid. At the present time up-wards of 20,000 miles ot submerged wires are in constant… … Fig. 300. — The Breaking of the Cable. ■as to the speed of electricity have been abandoned, for it has been ascer-tained that electricity cannot properly be said to have a velocity, since thesame quantity of electricity can be made to traverse the same distance with■extremely different speeds. No…
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