When the first transatlantic cable was successfully laid in the summer of 1858, two continents buzzed with the promise of instant communication. The Times of London went so far as to declare ...

The First Attempts to Lay the Transatlantic Cable (1857-1858): The first attempts to lay the transatlantic cable from Ireland to Newfoundland were fraught with bad luck and repeated setbacks.

So next time you're reading our US colleagues' website over a transatlantic fibreoptic cable, remember the steadfast work of Frederick Gisborne and Cyrus Field back in 1858, in a pair of boats in ...

In response to the completion of the first successful, albeit short-lived transatlantic cable in 1858, a contemporary hailed the significance of what had been achieved. In a prescient tone in the ...

The transatlantic cable was working! But it wasn’t working ... Attempt Number four wouldn’t take place until 1865. After the 1858 failure, Cyrus Field had trouble finding backers, and there ...

There have been various technological leaps between the first transatlantic telegram in 1858 and modern cables, from the creation of the Coaxial cable that was patented in 1931 to the development ...

Despite a series of setbacks, the cable was successfully connected after a third attempt in the summer of 1858. Unfortunately, glitches continued and it would take another eight years before the ...

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The Transatlantic Cable Ensemble is an exceptionally well-preserved monument to the world’s first successful trans-oceanic submarine telegraph cable, briefly connected in 1858 and successfully ...

The 19th century transatlantic cable on Valentia Island is one of three groups of sites being put forward for Unesco World Heritage status by the State. The other sites are the passage tomb ...