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THE year 1898 was an important period in the history of space-telegraphy, it was the period in which the possibility of being able to signal across wide stretches of open sea, with certainty in all weathers and at high speeds, became first generally recognised as practicable. Within the year the final report of the Royal Commission on the question of Coast-Telegraphs, published late in 1897, came into our hands; and the last few months of the year witnessed a truce to the war of “wireless-telegraphy.” A wave of good feeling has now united the opponents into something like coherence, and the honours have been divided with universal approval. The result is that for the future Italy takes prominence, England eminence, while Russia, Germany and France share the luxury of many grievances.
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APPLEYARD, R. Coast-Telegraphs and Space-Telegraphy. Nature 59, 248–251 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/059248b0
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