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History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications |
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the first submarine cable, laid in 1850, to the present day fiber optic connections circling the world |
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History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications |
| From
the first submarine cable, laid in 1850, to the present day fiber optic connections circling the world |
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Site Changes - 2004 |
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| 26 December | Added article on the 1928 Newfoundland-Azores High-Speed Duplex Cable |
| 26 December | Added page on Cable Station RM - Cal Sheckler's account of diverting the 1926 Azores-Emden German cable into Normany for use by the Allied Forces after D-Day in 1944 |
| 23 December | Added Speech by David Dudley Field at the Crystal Palace during the 1858 Cable Celebration in New York City |
| 23 December | Added Speech by David Dudley Field at the 1879 reception for the 25th Anniversary of the founding of the first Atlantic cable company |
| 20 December | Added 1894 article from Engineering on Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, the cost of laying and maintaining cables |
| 27 November | Added page by Jim Jones on Cable Work at the Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Company (Telcon) and Standard Telephones & Cables (STC) |
| 21 November | Added Frank Foord's story on protecting CS Lord Kelvin in World War II. |
| 14 November | Added page by Bill Glover on All America Cables |
| 11 November | Added page by Bill Glover on CS All America |
| 29 October | Added article by Allan Green: 150 Years Of Industry & Enterprise At Enderby's Wharf |
| 28 October | Added 1895 article by J. Munro: Nerves of the World |
| 23 October | Added page on the 1914 Battle of Cocos |
| 23 October | Added page on the 1910 Anglo-Norwegian cable from Newbiggin to Arendal |
| 23 October | Added page by Bill Glover on the Simplex Wire & Cable Company |
| 22 October | Added pictorial history page on Enderby's Wharf, site of cable making in Greenwich from 1850 until 1975 |
| 21 October | Added page on the 1853 Anglo-Irish cable from Portpatrick, Scotland, to Donaghadee, Ireland |
| 16 October | Added page by John-Tofte Joergensen on P.T. Joergensen's work with the Great Northern Telegraph Company |
| 15 October | Added page by Bill Glover on CS Electra (1) |
| 28 September | Added 1923 New York Times article: Laying a Deep-Sea Cable Line Delicate and Dangerous Job |
| 28 September | Added 1898 article on Cable-Cutting At Cienfuegos - by the US Navy Lieutenant who led the expedition to cut Cuba's submarine cables during the Spanish-American War |
| 13 September | Added page on Thomas Worrall and the 1858 Atlantic cable |
| 13 September | Added review of Chester G. Hearn's book Circuits in the Sea: The Men, the Ships, and the Atlantic Cable |
| 13 September | Added Origins of the Submarine Cable Industry in Britain by Bill Burns, a paper presented at the Fleming Centenary Conference, University College London, 2 July 2004 |
| 11 September | Added Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable from Ship to Shore - a portfolio of eight lithographs together with a description of landing the shore end of the 1857 cable at Valentia, Ireland, by John R. Isaac, published August 1857 |
| 1 September | Added review of John Avery's book The Cable Ships of Turnchapel |
| 28 August | Added page for 1858 Cable Snuff Box |
| 27 July | Added page by Denis A. Darmanin on Eastern Telegraph Company Buttons |
| 26 July | Added page by Bill Glover on US Underseas Cable Corporation |
| 24 July | Added page by Bill Glover on US Armed Forces Cables and Cableships |
| 21 July | Added article from Scientific American on Professor Hall's Floating Telegraph Stations - an 1857 alternative to a single span cable across the Atlantic |
| 21 July | Added article from Scientific American on the 1855 Crimea cable: European Sub-Marine Telegraph |
| 19 July | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Dominia, CS Ile de Re, HMTS Iris (2), and CS Retriever (5) |
| 12 July | Added page by Bill Glover on CS Alert (4) |
| 11 July | Added page by Bill Glover on British Insulated Callenders (Submarine) Cables Ltd |
| 11 July | Added expanded page by Bill Glover on CS John W. Mackay |
| 10 July | Added article on the 1926 Cable Chess Match between London and Chicago |
| 10 July | Added book review of Den store søslange (The Great Sea-Serpent) - Pictures from the infancy of telegraphy, produced to accompany the current exhibition at the Danish PTT Museum |
| 23 May | Added pages for 1858 cable display and 1903 pocket knife to the Souvenirs page |
| 22 May | Added page by Bill Glover on CS Mercury |
| 17 May | Added page by Bill Glover on the 1963 Anglo-Danish cable |
| 9 May | Added extract from Henry Field's Summer Pictures - a brief account of the meeting of the Field brothers in Plymouth just before the sailing of the 1858 Atlantic Cable expedition |
| 9 May | Added page by Bill Glover on CS Pacific Guardian |
| 1 May | Added John C. Deane's Diary of the 1865 Great Eastern expedition |
| 25 April | Added page on the special exhibition at the Danish Post & Tele Museum, Copenhagen "Online - 150 Years on the Net" |
| 25 April | Added page by Bill Glover on CS Atlantic Guardian |
| 14 March | Added page by Bill Glover on HMTS Monarch (4) |
| 7 March | Added page on cable gear manufacturer Johnson and Phillips |
| 7 March | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Cable Venture, CS Flexservice, CS Recorder (3) |
| 6 March | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Burnside and CS Lady Denison Pender |
| 6 March |
Added pages
on cables: 1859 Suez - Aden
- Karachi, 1864 Karachi
- Bushire, |
| 28 February | Added page by George S. Watson on Remembrances of a Cable Operator |
| 20 February | Added page on the 1921 Key West, Florida - Havana, Cuba, telephone cables |
| 20 February | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Cambria, CS Ocean Layer & CS Telconia |
| 17 February | Added page by Bill Glover on CS Western Union with present-day photos by Tom Perera |
| 17 February | Added page by Bill Glover on HMCS Iris (1) and CS Recorder (2) |
| 17 February | Added page on the Cable Pioneers - the men who started the cable industry |
| 12 February | Added page on the 1879 Wanganui - Wakapuaka Cable (Cook Strait, New Zealand) |
| 11 February | Added page by Bill Glover on CS Edward Wilshaw |
| 26 January | Added page on the 1930 Key West, Florida - Havana, Cuba, telephone cable |
| 20 January | Added page for Cable Stories - personal stories and photographs of the cable industry, contributed by site visitors. |
| 19 January | Added page on the 1870 British - Indian cable (Bombay - Aden - Suez) |
| 15 January | Added page by Bill Glover on the Danish PTT (Tele Danmark) |
| 15 January | Added page by Bill Glover on The Great Northern Telegraph Company |
| 11 January | Added new material on CS All America |
| 11 January | Added book review of David Lindley's Degrees Kelvin: A Tale of Genius, Invention, and Tragedy, a new biography of William Thomson, Lord Kelvin |
| 9 January | Added letter from Sir Robert Peel to James C. Deane, later Secretary of the Anglo-American Telegraph Company, concerning the loss of the 1865 cable |
| 3 January | Added Commercial Cable Company article: How submarine cables are made, laid, operated and repaired |
| 2 January | Extensive updates to Bill Glover's Cable Timeline |
| 1 January | Added page on the 1895 Amazon River (Para - Manaos) cable |
| 1 January | Added page on the 1853 England - Holland cable |
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Last revised: 2 January, 2006