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A Telegraphic Feat

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 18, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 2.

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A Telegraphic Feat

It would hardly be possible to set forth in a more striking light the great advancement which science has made in this age of wonders, than is done in the following single paragraph. An order is sent from London across an ocean and across a continent, and filled, and an answer returned to London the same day accordingly.
“The last great telegraphic feat is the ordering of wheat by a London house of one in San Francisco, and the receipt by the former, on the same day, of the intelligence that the order had been filled. This was recently accomplished via the Atlantic cable and overland telegraph. What would our grandfathers have said to business done in that way.”