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x. internal communications.
to Gothenburg; from Stockholm along the coast to Malmö, and from Malmö
to Gothenburg. As early as 1854, Sweden was placed in telegraphic
communication with the continent by a submarine cable in the Sound.
The Swedish telegraphs received a more stable organization in 1856,
by the establishment of the Royal Telegraph Service, to which were
entrusted not only the electric, but also the signal telegraphs. More
of less thorough changes have been made from time to time in this
organization, partly in consequence of an increase in the use of
telegraphic communication (this was especially the case after the reduction
in the rates for telegrams in 1889 and 1907), and partly —- and chiefly
—- in consequence of the immense development of the telephone system
during the last decade of the 19th century and the first ten years of the
present one.
The State telegraph-net at the close of 1913 embraced 30 470 km over-head
lines and cables, carrying both telegraph- and telephone-wires. The length of
the telegraph-wires was 34 030 km, in addition to which, 4 647 km of
telephone-wires were employed simultaneously for telephoning and telegraphing.
Along the lines of railways there were 11 084 km of over-head lines and 29 487
km of telegraph-wires owned by the railways and intended principally for
rail-way-service messages, but which, as a rule, are mostly employed in forwarding
telegraphic despatches for the public. The total length, consequently, of the
telegraph-wires of Sweden, amounted to 63 517 km.
The independent stations of the Telegraph Service at the close of 1913
numbered 162, of which 4 had day- and night-service; 116 had all day-service
and 42 had partial day-service. If to these we add 15 branch telegraph-stations
in Stockholm and Gothenburg, and 1 029 other sub-offices opened by the
Telegraph Service, so-called telegraph-rooms and telegram receiving-rooms (situated
for the most part on private premises) which receive telegrams from the public
and send them by means of telephone to the nearest State telegraph-office —
as far as regards the telegraph-rooms, these stations also send the telegrams
received to their addressees — and 514 offices at the State Railway stations and
1 266 at the stations of the private railways, the total number of
telegraph-offices in the kingdom amounts to 2 986.
Table 135. Development of the State Telegraph Network.1
[-Telegraph-lines-]
{+Tele- graph- lines+} km No. of paid telegrams Income from fees kr. Capital common to Telegraph- and Telephone Services Return in % of
average of capital disposable during year
Year Inland Foreign Transit Total
1860 6 778 105 963 38 059 15146 159168 475 513 2 120 856 3’51
1870 14 515 365 975 177 275 47 050 590300 749 748 4 393 294 2-47
1880 20 336 550 841 345 318 90 261 986 420 1204 878 5 701 910 0-87
1890 22 884 961 476 603 517 190 352 1755 345 1412 018 5 574 807 4-78
1900 27 992 1 252 848 889 216 364 255 2 506 319 1800 913 25 696 750 9-55
1910 32 220 1 658 957 1368 401 872 841 3 900 199 2 265 193 72 513 083 7-30
1912 32 467 1 944 866 1 584 013 1106 913 4 635 792 2 606 472 82 500 709 8’4ft
1913 34 030 2 053 647 1 590 594 1 155038 4 799279 2 678 673 88 218 180 7-69
1 Railway telegraph lines not included.
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