In 1858, the first transatlantic telegraph cable connected Europe and North America — and history was never the same. For the first time, empires could speak in near real-time across oceans.

Coated with plastic or steel wires, fiber optic cables, the descendants of their telegraphic counterparts, began crossing the seas in the late 1980s, sometimes along similar routes. “The first ...

The cable end was brought ashore, hooked into the Heart’s Content telegraph station ... is anyone who can be considered the father of the transatlantic cable, it would be American businessman ...

And yet subsea cables are low-tech, too, coated in tar and unspooled by ships employing basically the same process used in the 1850s to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable. SubCom ...

ON MAY 24, 1844, the artist and inventor Samuel F. B. Morse sent the first official telegraph message transmitted in the United States, “What hath God wrought?” This simple Biblical quote ...

Within the past few days it has become definitely known in this City that the much-talked-of American Atlantic Cable Telegraph Company had recently met with such success that the speedy completion ...

Why the transatlantic telegraph cable conjured dreams of sea monsters. Hayley Brazier In summer 2022, I was performing research in the archives of the National Museum of American History when I ...

Europe and North America were connected for the first time in 1858 via a 3,000km undersea transatlantic telegraph cable, upon which the first-ever message was sent from Valentia Island to Trinity ...

2. Sharks have tried to eat the internet. In 1854, installation began on the first transatlantic telegraph cable, which connected Newfoundland and Ireland. Four years later the first transmission ...

The Royal Navy is testing how to use robots to seek out and detonate mines and other threats found near vital yet vulnerable undersea cables and pipelines at greater depths than a human diver can ...