History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network |
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26 December | Added 1867 paper by Cromwell F. Varley: On the Atlantic Telegraph | |||
26 December | Added January 1903 article: The Laying of the American Trans-Pacific Cable | |||
24 December | Added obituary of Cromwell F. Varley | |||
24 December | Added page by Bill Glover on CS Long Lines | |||
22 December | Added page on Goliath, the ship which laid the first submarine cable in 1850 | |||
21 December | Added February 1858 paper: On the Practical Operations connected with the Paying-Out and Repairing of Submarine Telegraph Cables by Frederick C. Webb | |||
19 December | Added page on 1858 Atlantic Cable ribbon, Albany NY | |||
18 December | Added January 1857 paper: On Submarine Electric Telegraphs by Frederick R. Window | |||
16 December | Added March 1858 lecture: On the Submergence of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable by Captain M.S. Nolloth, R.N. | |||
8 December | Added Reports and Opinions in Reference to the Selection of the Best Point for Laying the Cable. July, 1857 | |||
22 November | Added 1895 article on the cable station at Rye Beach to the Direct United States Cable Company page | |||
16 November | Added article by Bill Glover on the 1827 Liverpool - Holyhead Semaphore Telegraph | |||
9 November | Added new Cable Story: George West and cable repairs off the coast of Peru, 1883 | |||
26 October | Added page on the 1852 Prince Edward Island Cable | |||
24 October | Added page on the 1950 Key West - Havana Cable | |||
23 October | Added new Cable Story: Charles W. Banks and the fire on CS Minia, 1894 | |||
17 October | Added information on a recovered cable to the Simplex page | |||
17 October | Added page on the 1889 Obock-Perim Cable | |||
28 September | Added John W. Brett's Rejoinder to Mr. Whitehouse, 22 September 1858 | |||
24 September | Added page on Atlantic Cable Broadsides 1858-66 | |||
16 September | Added newspaper article on cable laying and repair in World War II | |||
15 September | Added biographies by Steven Roberts of 19th century cable industry notables:
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14 September | Added new Cable Story: S.F. (Rudy) Rudolph - Cablehead RM, 1945-51. Rudy arrived at the station just as Cal Sheckler was leaving, and continues the story of the operation immediately after the end of the war | |||
5 September | Added page on the 1858 England-Holland Cable (Dunwich-Zandvoort) | |||
28 August | Added page on Early Cable Instruments - text and images of a talk given at the Antique Wireless Association Conference, August 2009 | |||
31 July | Added page on 1858 Atlantic Cable Medal/Brooch | |||
7 July | Added article by Wildman Whitehouse on the 1856 soundings of the Atlantic Ocean for the telegraph route | |||
1 July | Added note by Don Morton on the later history of wartime cable station RM | |||
13 June | Added review of Bert Lundy's book Telegraph, Telephone, and Wireless: How Telecom Changed the World | |||
13 June | Added page on Hooper's proposed 1873 South African Cable | |||
2 June | Added 1857 presentation by John Watkins Brett to the Royal Institution: On the Submarine Telegraph | |||
24 May | Added article on Wildman Whitehouse's 1855 experiments on the velocity of signals in long cables | |||
18 May | Added detailed account of the laying of the 1859 Singapore-Batavia Cable | |||
15 May | Added page on the 1900 German Atlantic Cable | |||
14 May | Added The Song of the Atlantic Telegraph Company by James Clerk Maxwell (1857) | |||
14 May | Added article by Steven Roberts: Bridging the Gap – News Telegraphs 1863-1870 | |||
12 May | Added 1899 article on the Commercial Cable Company: The End of an Ocean Cable | |||
11 May | Added page on the 1865 Great Eastern Diary by W.H. Russell | |||
5 May | Added full text of Cyrus Field's 1856 prospectus for The Atlantic Telegraph | |||
31 March | Added page on CS Recorder (1) | |||
30 March | Added 1889 article on Cable Operators | |||
10 March | Added page on the 1923 US Army San Pedro - Catalina Island cable | |||
7 March | Added page on TAT-1 Commemorative Silver Dish | |||
6 March | Added page by Steven Roberts on Anglo-Irish Cables | |||
3 March | Added page on the Killantringan Cable Hut near Portpatrick, Scotland | |||
8 February | Added page by Bill Glover on CS Salernum/Charles L Brown | |||
7 February | Added further original material on Edward Orange Wildman Whitehouse | |||
29 January | Added page on the The Wheeler Gift Collection - Latimer Clark’s library | |||
29 January | Added photograph of the Telcon Electrical Staff, 1890 | |||
25 January | Added page on the 1869/70 Land’s End - Scilly Isles cables | |||
23 January | Added article on the 1870 Falmouth Gibraltar & Malta cable | |||
13 January | Added section on Edward Orange Wildman Whitehouse - a comprehensive history of the life and work of the Electrician of the 1857-58 Atlantic Cables |
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Acknowledgements As the site progresses into its eleventh year, I continue to extend special thanks to Bill Glover, who has been contributing time and material to the project for much of that time. Thanks also to Jim Jones, a cable industry veteran of many years, who has not only provided much of his own material, but has also tracked down former colleagues and other cable workers for contributions to the site. And to Steven Roberts, an invaluable source of research help, who has also contributed a number of articles to the site. Steve’s Distant Writing - The Telegraph Companies in Britain between 1838 and 1868 was first published on-line with the encouragement of this website. And finally, thanks to all contributors and correspondents for their help in making the site a major resource for communications history research. Contributors are credited on their individual pages; all uncredited material is by site owner and webmaster Bill Burns. |
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.