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1942
1942 - 1508.PDF
z8 Advertisement* FLIGHT JULY I6TH, 1942 COMMUNICATIONS Oil) AND NEW^- MESSAGES IN BOTTLES IN Queen Elizabeth's reign an official Uncorker of Ocean Bottles was appointed. This followed the discovery by a Dover fisherman of an important political secret, which had come bobbing across the ocean in a bottle. For long after, any unauthorized person opening a bottle message stood a fair chance of being hanged. Mississippi—Isle of Wight Many a ship's skipper has launched a message in a bottle, and a reply from distant lands has sometimes led to valuable data on wind-drifts and currents. An interesting voyage was made by a bottle dropped in the Mississippi, which was picked up ten months later off the Isle of Wight. Messages have been known to travel thus as far as ten thousand miles. Future of Mankind While messages drift haphazardly across the waters, at the mercy of wind and tide, news now hums across the world by cable and wireless. In the arts of peace, as in the arts of war, this invisible force plays a vital part in shaping the future of mankind. With stations in every corner of the earth, Cable and Wireless Ltd. represents a vast overseas service. A message sent f via Imperial' is an everyday miracle of rapid, reliable, and inexpensive communication. I CABLE AND WIRELESS i LTD The only British owned and operated Overseas Telegraph Company in this country mi Mill 1 1 I 1 I 11111U11 11111 t M """"• THE GAUGE FOR No Contact NO WEAR easier and quicker to use than plain gauges IDEAL WITH UNSKILLED * LABOUR ^j* Write for advice and literature to SOLEX Ltd £23-231 MARYLEBONE ROAD, LONDON, N.W.I Telephone PADdington 5011 (6 Lines).
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