A Great Agency

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 4, 1910

As illustrating the very general use now made of the telephone, one of the world's great utilities, the following, by Engineering, is of interest:—

There are in the whole world 9,600,000 telephones, and the lines have an aggregate length of about 12,500,000 miles. There are 1,800,000 telephones in Europe, 56,000 in Asia, 9,000 in Africa, 7,700,000 in America (of which 7,590,000 are in the United States), and 53,000 in Australia.