The Archive · 1926

Rugby's Triumph in Talking

WIRELESS TELEPHONY

to America London, Feb. 18.

A further wireless triumph in the form of trans-Atlantic wireless telephony' La:

ing 15 and a half hours officially announced by the Post Office to-day, The Post Office states that Rugby alked with New York from o'clock in the morning till 7,30 in who evening of February 7 under normally favourable conditions of! the ether and with very promising results, but it must be a considerable time before a commercial radio iclephone service over the Atlantic an be established, as numerous tech obstacles' must first be surmounted.

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