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'Telegraph and travel. A narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines.' [5] (36/782)
The record is made up of 1 volume (673 pages). It was created in 1874. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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INTRODUCTORY. 5
" my own opinion is in favour of eventual success ; and by
'"success' 1 am not employing the ordinary acceptation
" of the term: past and present records will show this to
"have been long since attained by the Indo-European
"line. I mean that the 'within 24' and 'within 48'
" hour messages of the present day w T ill habitually arrive
" within 12 hours ; that regularity and correctness may
" before many months be the rule ; and that the corre-
<£ spondence will be subject to even a lower rate of tariff
"than the present."
The last extract is from a letter just four years old.
And what are the results to be quoted in evidence, now
that ten years have passed since laying the cable in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
? Are they favourable to the arguments of
the Government Officers, or of those who set them aside
as unsupported by experience or sound reasoning ? Fair
and impartial judgment is invited on all sides. It is
true that a Company has organized and established a
Submarine Line to India, the success of which affects
injuriously the revenues of the State : but the Directors
of that line themselves would be the last to maintain
that the older and much vilified telegraph, crossing-
lands as well as seas, was a rival to be lightly esteemed.
Nor can it be a source of surprise, as it is really no
secret, that they should seek to join fortunes in a common
purse with their opponents, rather than continue a com
petition as unexpected as severe. At the present time,
the columns of the daily papers furnish abundant proof
of the successful working of what is called the Indo-
European system. Day after day do its wires bring
home the news of the hour : and at the very moment of
writing these lines does the casually taken-up Times
of the morning contain an urgent message, sadly headed
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Telegraph and travel. A narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines.
Author: Colonel Sir Frederic John Goldsmid, CB, KCSI. Late Chief Commissioner Indo-European Telegraph; British Commissioner for settlement of the Perso-Baluch Frontier (1870-71) and Arbitrator in the Perso-Afghan boundary question (1872-73).
Publication details: London. Macmillan and Co., 1874. R Clay, Sons and Taylor, printers, Bread Streat Hill.
Physical Description: xiv, [2], 673, [3]p., [8] leaves of plates (2 folded): ii, maps, portrait; 23cm (8º).
Ownership: With stamps of the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Library and embossed stamp of the "Secretary of State for India Library". Marginal ms. annotations in a contemporary hand in ink on pages 101, 194, 196, 264 and 527.
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- 1 volume (673 pages)
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This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references, along with a list of illustrations giving titles and page references. There is also an index which begins on page 661.
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Dimensions: 232mm x 156mm
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- V 21450
- Title
- 'Telegraph and travel. A narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines.'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1:14, 14a:14b, 15:18, 1:8, 8a:8b, 9:144, 144a:144b, 145:186, 186a:186b, 187:324, 324a:324b, 325:516, 516a:516b, 517:648, 648a:648b, 649:676, 1:60, iii-r:iii-v, back-i
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- Goldsmid, Sir Frederic John
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