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Aug 20, 1911:
First around-the-world telegram sent.
On this day in 1911, a dispatcher in the New York Times office
sends the first telegram around the world via commercial service.
Exactly 66 years later, the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) sends a different kind of message--a
phonograph record containing information about Earth for
extraterrestrial beings--shooting into space aboard the unmanned
spacecraft Voyager II.
The Times decided to send its 1911 telegram in order to determine
how fast a commercial message could be sent around the world by
telegraph cable. The message, reading simply "This message sent
around the world," left the dispatch room on the 17th floor of
the Times building in New York at 7 p.m. on August 20. After it
traveled more than 28,000 miles, being relayed by 16 different
operators, through San Francisco, the Philippines, Hong Kong,
Saigon, Singapore, Bombay, Malta, Lisbon and the Azores--among
other locations--the reply was received by the same operator 16.5
minutes later. It was the fastest time achieved by a commercial
cablegram since the opening of the Pacific cable in 1900 by the
Commercial Cable Company.
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