“The first submarine transatlantic telegraph cable that arrived in Brazil in 1874 ran along a similar route to the high-capacity fiber optic cable inaugurated in 2021, which connects Fortaleza to ...

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.

But one man, Frederic Newton Gisborne, envisioned a grander feat - connecting continents with a transatlantic telegraph cable. More for You. Republicans issued warning on 2026 midterms.

H.M.S. Agamemnon Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, 1858 by Robert Charles Dudley (Metropolitan Museum of Art) ... The transatlantic cable was working! But it wasn’t working well.

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?” ...

American Atlantic Cable Telegraph Company; Plans of. A NEW CABLE.; ANOTHER TRANSATLANTIC LINK. THE WIRE TO BE COMPLETED NEXT MAY-- SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS PAID IN--A HISTORY OF THE ENTERPRISE.

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 ...

H.M.S. 'Agamemnon' lays the original Atlantic Telegraph cable in 1857. | Heritage Images/GettyImages. In 1854, installation began on the first transatlantic telegraph cable, which connected ...

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 ...