History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications
from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network
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History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications |
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| 8 December | Added page on a newly discovered “Laying the Atlantic Cable” badge |
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| 16 November | Added details of Francis Herbert Trethewey's employment with the Eastern Telegraph Company (1902-1945) and his service on CS Sherard Osborn |
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| 5 November | Added further details to the page on Jacques Babinet, who believed that the Atlantic cable would never work |
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| 29 September | Added 1869 James Wyld “Map of the Atlantic Telegraph Communications between France, England & America” |
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| 20 September | Added page From Sheerness to Valentia - reporting on the first part of the 1866 Great Eastern expedition, by J.C. Parkinson, Special Correspondent of the London Daily News |
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| 10 September | Added details of the 1874 renewal of the 1861 Beachy Head - Dieppe cable |
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| 8 September | Added information on Simplex and TAT-1 (1955) |
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| 14 August | Added page on Cables and Core Sections, 1875-1912 |
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| 19 July | Added the true story of the 1850 Dover-Calais cable purportedly hauled up by a French fisherman and described as “rare seaweed, with its centre filled with gold” |
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| 19 July | Added obituary of Jacob Brett |
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| 20 June | Added Jeffrey Kieve's 1973 book “The Electric Telegraph: A Social and Economic History.” This key history of the British telegraph industry is now available as a free PDF download courtesy of Mr Kieve’s family. |
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| 29 May | Added transcription of part two of John Deane’s diary of the 1866 Atlantic Telegraph expedition. This describes the landing of the shore end of the 1866 cable at Heart’s Content, and the recovery and completion of the lost 1865 cable. |
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| 25 May | Added a detailed list and directory of documents published on board Great Eastern during the 1865 and 1866 Atlantic cable expeditions, 186 pages of documents in all. |
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| 5 May | Added St. John's, Newfoundland, as a Port of Call for Transatlantic Steamers: A pamphlet published by Cyrus Field in February 1856 to provide a financial analysis of the benefits to transatlantic shipping of making port at St John's, where telegraph messages could be sent between Newfoundland and New York over the new Cabot Strait cable. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Contact Information
Site owner and webmaster: Bill Burns
email me at: [email protected]
The background image on this page is taken from the
front cover of
W.H. Russell’s The Atlantic Telegraph,
and shows a section of the 1865 cable.
