Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1898 — Telegraph in the Suez Canal. [ARTICLE]

Telegraph in the Suez Canal.

A most ingenious system is employed by which the director of the Suez canal can tell at a glance the exact position of all vessels passing through it. A model is placed in the office at Port Said and the whole canal is worked from headquarters by means of the telegraph, the position of each ship being marked by a figure on thp model. It is thus made easy to arrange for vessels passing each other.