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OUR modern Mercury since the year 1846, when the first system of electrical highways was laid down from the metropolis to Norwich, Southampton, Crewe, and Exeter, has not been idle. The wonderful development of the laws enunciated by Wheatstone which regulate the transmission of electric currents through solid conductors has resulted in some very remarkable inventions. At the date at which we write, from a crude beginning when with difficulty electric speech could be conveyed to such limited distances as Manchester and Norwich, we are now able to record the transmission of the Queen's speech to the confines of the empire in a few minutes.
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Social Electrical Nerves . Nature 17, 305–306 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/017305b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/017305b0