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.

September-December: Telegraph company head Frederick Gisborne ... seeking their opinions on the feasibility of a transatlantic cable. Both men are enthusiastic; Morse believes such a cable is ...

Telegraph messages were sent in the dots ... smaller offices in rural areas handled minimal traffic. Even the transatlantic cable had only about 50 messages in a day shortly after it opened ...

it’s hard to imagine that it wasn’t until 1956 that the first transatlantic telephone cable was laid. Sure, there were telegraph cables under the Atlantic starting as early as the late 1800s ...

A quick and strong method of jointing the sections of marine cables is absolutely necessary in cases of emergency which often occur at sea. At a recent meeting of the Transatlantic Telegraph ...

combine them to new information and decipher the mysterious signals that arrive at the station of the first transatlantic telegraph cable in a little village on the North Sea coast. Advertisement ...

Thus it was doubly disappointing to American Telephone and Telegraph that the U.S. Government ... as spoken communications through its transatlantic cables, which are capable of carrying both.

Telegraph Co. last week told how it craftily takes advantage of such conversational pauses to double the carrying capacity of its U.S.Britain cable. At each end of the transatlantic cable is a ...

He developed Morse code as a rival to Cook and Wheatstone’s telegraph ... s single wire cable system was working all over Europe. In 1858 Queen Victoria sent the first transatlantic message ...