Engineering Wonders of the World
Volume I
Forfatter: Archibald Williams
År: 1945
Serie: Engineering Wonders of the World
Forlag: Thomas Nelson and Sons
Sted: London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York
Sider: 456
UDK: 600 eng - gl.
Volume I with 520 Illustrations, Maps and Diagrams
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THE AFRICAN TRANSCONTINENTAL TELEGRAPH. 197
ON TREK WITH TELEGRAPH MATERIAL FOR LINE
BETWEEN LAKES NYASA AND TANGANYIKA.
into Ugan-
da, where it
will be
joined to
the trunk
line of that
country,
which
crosses from
east to west
in close
p roximity
to the U-
ganda rail-
way. This
junction ef-
fected, the
trans conti-
being the longest stretch of wire in the world ;
but when the nature of the country through
which it has been carried is taken into con-
sideration, and the many difficulties that have
had to be confronted are recognized, it will
be agreed that the trans-African telegraph
wire is one of the most wonderful engineering
feats of its kind that have yet been undertaken.
The actual length of the line belonging to
the Transcontinental Telegraph Company is
about 1,400 miles; and naturally in travers-
SOME OF THE COUNTRY THROUGH WHICH THE AFRICAN TRANS-
CONTINENTAL TELEGRAPH PASSES, NEAR FIFE.
ing this ex-
t e n t of
c o u n t r y
many phys-
ical changes
have been
e n c o u ii-
tered. Some
of the coun-
try has been
e minently
suitable for
the work,
which has
there been
pushed for-
ward with
ease, while
in other
nental line will then be carried forward to the
small settlement of Nimule, which is also in
Uganda, and is only 90 miles from Gondo-
koro, on the southern edge of the Soudan,
at which, place the Egyptian telegraphic system
has its termination. The distance from Udjidji
to the Uganda line is about 420 miles, so that
there is only a little over 500 miles more
wire to set up before this great scheme of
Mr. Cecil Rhodes will be completed and it
becomes possible to send overland telegraphic
messages from one end of the African con-
tinent to the other. The' total length of the
line from end to end will be, in round figures,
6,500 miles. This is, of course, far short of
A BAOBAB TREE ON THE LINE TELEGRAPH.
It is 100 feet in circumference, and probably 4,000 years old.
Mr. O. L. Beringer, C.E., the surveyor of the route north
of Lake Nyasa, is standing on the tree’s trunk.