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message to the Continenl was sent by tlie
Prince of Wales to President Carnot.
igoi. On the first day of the reign of
King Edward VII. wireless aerial mes-
sages are sent between Cornwall and St.
Catherine's, 200 miles distant.
In 1901 the6V. 6^^^r^e. one of the escorts
to the Ophir, called up Gibraltar (30 miles)
and other Marconigraphic stations during
the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall's (now
Prince and Princess of Wales) tour round
the Empire.
In 1901 the Cunard Co.'s Royal Mail
steamships Campania and Lucania ex-
clianged Marconigraphs in the dark at sea
30 to 100 miles distant.
In 1902 the Cunard Co.'s steamer Uifi-
bria communicates with the Etruria in
mid-Atlantic, the vessels being out of sight.
1901-1902. The Marconi system now
used exclusively by Lloyds and the prin-
cipal shipping companies in England and
abroad, and by British and Italian Ad-
miralties over distances ranging up to 180
miles. It is installed in thirty-seven British
warships and the Knglish Lightship Ser-
vice, and the Company have twenty places
on the British coast, twenty in other
European places, and five in America.
1902. The term Marconigram now ap-
plied to wireless telegrams by Ktherial
telegraphy.
1902, ilth March. Marconi to receive
a subsidy of 80,000 dollars to erect station
on Nova Scotia coast, from whence he
believes he may communicate with Cape
Town, in South Africa, and yet signal
over 1000 miles of land, and between
England and New Zealand via Panama.
1902. New York, 31st March. The
Unibria reports messages received from the
Cafiipania after her Marconi poles, falling
overboard, were some distance astern in
water.
THE RAIL'WAY.
ENGLAND, Etc.
1802. Surrey Iron Railway (by horses),
Wandsworth to Croydon sanctioned.
1814. George Stephenson's first loco-
motive, 6 miles an hour.
William James (born at Henley on
Arden 1771, died 1837), railway pioneer,
projector of over a dozen railways, and pro-
jector of the Liverpool and Manchester line,
visited George Stephenson about 1815-16.
1823. First iron railway bridge made
of cast iron for Stockton and Darlington
Railway, at St. Helens, Bishop Auckland.
1828. 23rd May. Act passed for the
construction of line from Stockton to
Middlesborough.
1829. The Rocket, 25-35 miles an hour.
1834, the Firefly, 20 miles an liour. 1839,
North Star, 37 miles an hour.
1843-46. Sir Rowland Hill, Director
and then Chairman of the Brighton Kail-
way, and thus chief introducer of express
and excursion trains (first run on that line).
1846 Railway mania and panic year.
272 Acts passed.
Railways opened : —
1830. Liverpool and Manchester.
1839. Durham and Sunderland.
1839-44. Newcastle to Shields and
Sunderland ; 1847, to Berwick.
1840. London to Southampton ; 1S41,
to Brighton.
1840. Lancaster and Preston ; 1846,
Lancaster and Carlisle.
' 1841. York to Darlington.
1 84 1. London to Bristol ; 1844, to
Darlington; 1850, to Peterborough.
1847. York and Newcastle.
1852. Great Northern.
1853. Block system introduced.
1863. Metropolitan (underground).
1865. 250 Railway Bills passed. In
1867, 98 Railway Bills.
1868. Climbing locomotive by central
rail ascends Mount Cenis with carriages.
1869. Pacific Railway (from Atlantic to
Pacific), Omaha to California, 1700 miles.
1885, Canadian Pacific, Montreal to Van-
couver, 2900 miles.
1872. First railway in Japan.
187/). Puhnan cars. Midland Railway.
1877-78. Elevated street railways in
New ^'ork.
1881. Siemens' & Halske's electrical
railway at Berlin (i8;j miles an hour).
1888. First railway in China (86 miles).
1888. London to Edinburgh and Glas-
gow in 8 hours.
1893. Corridor train, G. W. Railway.
1895, Railway race, London to Aber-
deen, 540 miles in 512 minutes.
1902. Projected electro mono-rail be-
tween Liverpool and Manchester. Esti-
mated speed, no miles an hour.
SCOTLAND.
1831. "Innocent Railway" (horses),
Edinburgh to Dalkeith, opened.
1840. Dundee and Arbroath (first in
Scotland with steam locomotive) ; Glasgow
to Ayr.
1842. Edinburgh to Glasgow.
1846. Edinburgh to Berwick.