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xm. communications of swbden.
To obtain a place as official at the district administration or in the practical
service of the Swedish Post Office, the applicant is required to have matriculated
or to have, at least, certificates of an equal knowledge in Swedish, one foreign
language, geography and mathematics, and to go through a six months’ coune
of training. During this course, the pupils must spend three months at a
post-office, to be fixed by the Central Postal Administration, in order to acquire
practice in post-office work, and three months for theoretical postal studies at one of
the post-offices in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Sundsvall or Örebro: after the
close of the theoretical course the pupils are examined in presence of censors
appointed for the purpose. — About 400 women are employed at the post-offices;
of the number, 2 are postmasters, about 240 managers of postal stations, and
the rest are post-office clerks or auxiliaries.
5. TELEGRAPH SERVICE.
The first signal telegraph (semaphore) in Sweden was erected in
1794. In the autumn of that year an signal telegraph, constructed by
A. N. Edelcrantz, was tried between the royal palace of Stockholm and
that of Drottningholm, 10 kilometers (6 Eng. miles) distant.
The telegraph erected — almost simultaneously with that of Chappe in
France, but on an independent system — proved so practical that, during the
years following, new telegraph lines were established between Stockholm and
various important points at the sea-entrance to the capital, as well as at
several places on the west and south coasts of the country. The constructions
mentioned, which to a great extent were brought about by the necessity, during
the war of 1808 and 1809, of a quick and secure signal-service, fell into decay,
however, at the end of the war. It was only in 1836 that the government
determined upon their re-erection: a telegraph-corps was established, under the
command of the chief of the Topographical corps, and received its regulations in 1838.
The subsequent development, of the signal telegraph was, however, of very
short duration, in consequence of the discovery of the incomparably greater
capability of electricity to convey communications quickly and safely, to great
distances. After the introduction of the electric telegraph, the signal telegraph
stations were, by degrees, done away with, and at present there remain but three
of them.
The first eleotrio telegraph line in Sweden was set up in 1853
between Stockholm and Uppsala, after which, during the two
following years,. new lines were put up from Uppsala, through Vesterås,
Örebro, and Venersborg, to Gothenburg; from Stockholm through eastern
Sweden 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 in 1856 received a more permanent
organization by the establishment of the Royal Telegraph Department, to which
were entrusted not only the electric, but also the signal telegraphs.
More or less thorough changes have, time after time, been made in this
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