Laying the First Transatlantic Cable
In the early 1800s the electrical telegraph was developed to transmit written messages through a wire. By 1850 there was a submarine telegraph cable laid beneath the English Channel followed by a cable across the Cabot Strait in 1856. By this time Cyrus West Field formed the Atlantic Telegraph Compa...
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Memorial University of Newfoundland
2013
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| Online Access: | https://journals.library.mun.ca/ojs/index.php/prototype/article/view/520 |