1918 First message England to Aust

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39 The seriousness of the competition from telegraphy without wires was brought home to
Electra House when on 22 September 1918 a message from William Hughes, Australian
Prime Minister, in London after visiting World War I battlefields, was transmitted by the
long-wave Marconi Transatlantic Station at Carnarvon to E. T. Fisk, Managing Director of
Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd, who received it in Sydney ‘instantaneously’.

40 The Marconi Company was selling ‘the Twentieth Century Route’ with some forceful

advertising in the 1920s, indirectly knocking the ‘old-fashioned’ cable. The map shows how

already in 1923 there were direct commercial wireless telegraph services via Marconi from
London to Moscow, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Beirut.

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