“ RING UP NEW YORK.”

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3356, 24 October 1911, Page 7

“ RING UP NEW YORK.”

THE POSSIBILITIES OF A NEW CABLE. After some twenty years of experiment and research a professor Of the Stevens Institute of Technology, London, has succ-ee-cted in producing a cable, for ’long distance telephony and telegraphy which lie claims will render possible conversation bet.ween London and New York. Long-distance telegraphy and telephony have hitherto 'been hampered by electro astatic capacity, and to overcome this what the kiiovvn as “loaded cables” are used, movlving an immense increase in cost. “The invention,” said Mr. G. Rosenbusch, the well-known consulting electrical engineer, “does away with the need of loading the cable with coils. The patent has just been granted after a ten years’ fight for it. It is claimed that tree capacity of the. cable will be increased from live to ten. times for telegraph work, and this is all done by winding tho wires in the cable helically round in paramagnetic core. It is hoped soon to lay an ocean cable constructed on these lines, and then you may have the pleasure of in a threeminute call at night to Now York. The inventor Professor J. H. Uuutz, was prominently before the American public some few years since, when he gave evidence against the claim- of i)r. Cook tliat he had climbed Mount McKinley. _______