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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 |
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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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| 28 December | Added 1885 article on Cyrus Field: Junk Dealer | |
| 26 December | Added 1875 article on the Silvertown Cable Works | |
| 24 December | Added 1886 biography of cable pioneer Frederic Newton Gisborne | |
| 22 December | Added page on Cyrus Field's 1864 Banquet in London | |
| 22 December | Added page for Siemens Brothers Cable Price List, 1870s | |
| 22 December | Added page for the Great Northern Centenary Book, 1869-1969 | |
| 21 December | Added page by Bill Glover on CS Norderney / HMTS Alert (3) | |
| 21 December | Added page on Cyrus Field's 1872 Banquet in London | |
| 18 December | Added page on Cable Recovery with photographs of marine growth on recovered cables | |
| 12 December | Added 1867 article by Robert Sabine on Submarine Telegraphy at the Paris Universal Exhibition | |
| 9 December | Added page on Richard Johnson & Nephew - suppliers of wire to cable manufacturers since 1851 | |
| 29 November | Added page by Bill Glover on HMS Bullhead / CS Electra (2) / CS Cable Guardian | |
| 26 November | Added book extract: Sir James Anderson on Submarine Cables - their design and construction, and reasons for their failure | |
| 23 November | Added page on the Bamfield Cable Station | |
| 8 November | Added new Cable Story on Benjamin Powell Wilkins and the wreck of CS Robert Lowe | |
| 7 November | Added page by Steven Roberts on Tal Shaffner's Northern Line Atlantic cable proposal | |
| 5 November | Added new photographs and cable details to the CS IT Intrepid page | |
| 30 October | Added page by Bill Glover on Dutch East Indies Government cables | |
| 29 October | Added page by Bill Glover on CS Grappler | |
| 27 October | Added page on CS Duplex | |
| 8 October | Added The Electric Telegraph - an 1851 poem on the wonders of telegraphy | |
| 4 October | Added page by Bill Glover on CS Global Sentinel | |
| 2 October | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Directeur-General Bast, CS Emba, CS Flexservice (2), CS Seaway Condor, CS Stanelco (2), CS Teneo, ACS St Margarets, MV Svitzer Magellan | |
| 20 September | Added new Cable Story on James Alan Bambrough: CS Dominia & CS Telconia | |
| 20 September | Added 1902 article How Cables Unite The World | |
| 30 August | Added page by George Smith on Cableship Flume Tanks | |
| 27 August | Added page by Steven Roberts on the West Highland Telegraph | |
| 27 August | Added new Cable Story on Alf Newsome and Cable Ships Silvertown, Dacia, Mexican, Electra | |
| 21 August | Added page on CS Ile de Sein | |
| 5 August | Added new Cable Story on Eric Tate and the Admiralty Cable Ships 1944-47 | |
| 4 August | Added cable chess souvenirs from 1897 and 1898 to the Cable Chess Match page. | |
| 3 August | Added new Cable Story on Jose Manuel Gil and CS Mercury, 1978 . | |
| 2 August | Added newspaper accounts of the completion in 1882 of the Central and South American West Coast cable. Thanks to David Siddle for the text of these articles. | |
| 30 July | Added 1898 article by Ewing Matheson on Submarine Telegraph Lines, which includes costs for laying and maintaining cables. | |
| 26 July | Added new Cable Story on Ken Guy and the CS Ocean Layer fire. | |
| 24 July | Added text of Epitome of Proceedings at a Telegraphic Soirée, given by Samuel Gurney M.P., At 25, Prince's Gate, Hyde Park, March 26,1862. |
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| 23 July | Added page by Allan Green on a Mystery Cable at Porthcurno Telegraph Museum. This landline cable may have been used as a telegraph connection, or in a radio application. | |
| 18 July | Added page by Bill Glover on the history of the Atlantic Cable enterprise, 1850-1858 | |
| 12 July | Added page by Bill Glover on CS Mirror (2) | |
| 16 June | Added page by Jim Jones on cable gear supplied by SCL/Telcon to the USSR | |
| 14 June | Added note by Bill Glover on CS Iris and the Falklands War | |
| 7 June | Added page by Bill Glover on the USSR cableship CS Ingul | |
| 5 June | Added page by Steven Roberts on the Electric Telegraph Company of Ireland | |
| 31 May | Added detailed description of the laying of the 1861 Malta-Alexandria cable | |
| 22 May | Added Salient Features In Cable Design Since 1850 - a timeline of cable technical developments from 1850 to 1959 by Submarine Cables Ltd. | |
| 16 May | Added The Cable History Trail - an illustrated guide for visitors to the sites of the earliest Atlantic Cables in County Kerry, Ireland | |
| 3 May | Added new Cable Story on Alfred Lawrence Spalding and CS Levant II - cable laying during the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-16 | |
| 6 March | Added page by Steven Roberts on the Indo-European Telegraph Company | |
| 20 February | Added page on companies involved in manufacturing the 1865 Atlantic Cable | |
| 5 February | Added page on 1858 Atlantic Cable souvenir advertisements | |
| 30 January | Added page on the 1984 ANZCAN cable, with images of the STC commemorative medallion | |
| 24 January | Added page on CS Levant II | |
| 19 January | Added page on the 1856 Cabot Strait cable, a crucial link for the first Atlantic Cable | |
| 15 January | Added article from Chambers' Journal on the 1869 French Cable | |
| 15 January | Added technical note on Sea Earths | |
| 10 January | Added page on Cable Signalling Speeds | |
| 8 January | Added new Cable Story: James Dooley's Violin, made on board HMTS Iris (2) in 1941 | |
| 4 January | Added page on the 1857 maiden voyage of the USS Niagara | |
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Last revised: 14 January, 2009