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... FEET AZORES CAPE VERDE CHUN DEEP 18900 FEET LONDON ROME WESTERN UNION TRANS - ATLANTIC CABLES AND CONNECTIONS Courtesy Western Union Telegraph Co. RIO 20700 FEET A bird's - eye view of the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean showing the ...
... FEET AZORES CAPE VERDE CHUN DEEP 18900 FEET LONDON ROME WESTERN UNION TRANS - ATLANTIC CABLES AND CONNECTIONS Courtesy Western Union Telegraph Co. RIO 20700 FEET A bird's - eye view of the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean showing the ...
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... feet long , with a beam of 36 feet and a draft of 11 feet . The two cylindrical rotors are nine feet in diameter and fifty feet high , and are made of metal one thirty - second of an inch in thickness . At the top and bottom of each of ...
... feet long , with a beam of 36 feet and a draft of 11 feet . The two cylindrical rotors are nine feet in diameter and fifty feet high , and are made of metal one thirty - second of an inch in thickness . At the top and bottom of each of ...
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... feet long , 48 feet beam and having a draft of 172 feet . Her main engines are two 500 horse- power Diesel engines which are attached to a single propeller through reducing gears . The motors run at 300 revolutions per minute and the ...
... feet long , 48 feet beam and having a draft of 172 feet . Her main engines are two 500 horse- power Diesel engines which are attached to a single propeller through reducing gears . The motors run at 300 revolutions per minute and the ...
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THE SUBMARINE CABLE | 3 |
OCEAN CABLE IS MADE LIKE THIS | 6 |
II | 17 |
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