The telegraph in American and Morse memorial (1886)
Reid, James D · New York, Printed for the author by J. Polhemus · leaf 566
oins the British West American Coast Com-panys lines to Valparaiso 1,699 miles, touching at Mallendo, Arica,Iquique, Autofagosta, Caldera, and La Serena. FromValparaiso theTransandine Telegraph Company (Chili), have land lines to Men-doza in La Plata, and the lines of the Argentine Republic… … The Commercial Cable Company. 525 Company was under the direction of J. B. Stearnes, so well knownin connection with duplex telegraphy. The cables are of thebest type. The shore cables weigh 14.64 tons per mile. Themain cable is laid in as nearly as possible 300 fathoms of waterand weighs 1.6 tons…
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 · Telegraph
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