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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, February 18, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 10

California to Ireland and Back in Two Minutes.

The New York Journal of the Telegraph of Monday has the following: “At an early hour this morning, the wires of the Western Union Telegraph Company, from San Francisco to Plaister Cove, Cape Breton, and the wires of the New York, Newfoundland & London Telegraph Company from Plaister Cove to Heart’s Content, were connected, and a brisk conversation began between the two continental extremes. Compliments were then passed between San Francisco and Valentia, Ireland, when the latter announced that a message was just then coming from London direct. This was said at twenty minutes past 7 A. M., Valentia time, February 1st. At twenty-one minutes past 7 A. M., Valentia time, the London message was started from Valentia for San Francisco; passed through New York at 35 minutes past 2 A. M., New York time; was received in San Francisco at 21 minutes past 1 P. M., San Francisco time, January 31st, and was at once acknowledged—the whole process occupying two minutes actual time, and the distance traversed about 14,000 miles!

“Immediately after the transmission of the message referred to, the operator at San Francisco sent an eighty-word message to Heart’s Content in three minutes, which the operator at Heart’s Content repeated back in two minutes and fifty seconds. Distance, about 5,000 miles.