| NOTAS: | "Girdle round the earth" helps you to understand how the world has shrunk. It describes how in the last fifty years communication between the farthest corners of the globe has become an instant and an everyday experience. It brings to life the expanding manner in which British businessmen, their engineers, marine officers and operators built and ran the systems that gave the Mother Country electric communication elsewhere. Among its cast of pioneers are the Penders of the Eastern Telegraph conglomerate, based on the submarine cable, formed in 1872; Gugliemo Marconi and his collaborators whose Beam Wireless deprived the cable companies of half their traffic 'at a stroke'; and those who from 1929, as a result of pressure from the Dominions , pioneered the operation which reconciled the rival methods (owned by HMG since 1947) which we know as Cable an Wireless Limited." |
