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Excerpt from Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Vol. 25: With Abstracts of the Discussions; Session 1865-66
IT is scarcely more than twenty years since the opening of the first line of Messrs. Cooke and Wheatstone's electric telegraph, between London and Southampton. Since then, almost every place of any importance in Europe has been included in the rapidly-spreading network of wire; while in India, Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, and all the principal towns, have been connected together. The junction of the European and Indian systems, and the extension of a line from Rangoon to China, and to Australia, by way of Java and Timor, have engaged the attention of telei graphic Engineers for some time past.
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