Transatlantic telegraph cables were undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. Telegraphy is an obsolete form of communication...
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A transatlantic telecommunications cable is a submarine communications cable connecting one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other. In the 19th and early...
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continents, such as the first transatlantic telegraph cable which became operational on 16 August 1858. Submarine cables first connected all the world's...
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Transatlantic cable may refer to: Transatlantic telegraph cable Transatlantic communications cable Other transatlantic submarine communications cable...
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James Buchanan (section Transatlantic telegraph cable)
Council for Trade and the Atlantic Telegraph Company, to Inquire Into the Construction of Submarine Telegraph Cables: Together with the Minutes of Evidence...
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The names of cable ships are often preceded by "C.S." as in CS Long Lines. The first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid by cable layers in 1857–58...
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TAT-1 (category Transatlantic communications cables)
TAT-1 (Transatlantic No. 1) was the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system. It was laid between Kerrera, Oban, Scotland and Clarenville,...
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businessman and financier, set his sights on laying the first transatlantic underwater telegraph cable after having been contacted by Frederic Newton Gisborne...
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USS Niagara (1855) (category Cable ships of the United States Navy)
On arrival in England, Niagara was equipped to lay cable for the first transatlantic telegraph, which was to follow the shallow tableland discovered...
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Wildman Whitehouse (category Telegraph engineers and inventors)
work on the pioneering endeavour to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable for the Atlantic Telegraph Company between western Ireland to eastern Newfoundland...
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