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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 - 2003 |
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| 30 December | Added page on John J. Carty: Electrical Communications (1923) - a survey of radio and cable communications between the USA and the rest of the world at an interesting turning point in technology. |
| 28 December | Added page on Cyrus Field at the New-York Chamber of Commerce (1863) - promoting and fundraising for the next attempt at laying the Atlantic Cable |
| 23 December | Added page on HMTS Ariel with photographs from a member of the crew |
| 12 December | Added page on the 1900 Atlantic cable (Nova Scotia - Azores section) |
| 6 December | Added articles on the 1850 Dover-Calais Cable from Scientific American and The Living Age |
| 23 November | Added new page of Cable Route Maps - from the first Atlantic Cable to present |
| 23 November | Added a major update to Bill Glover's Australian Overland Telegraph page |
| 15 October | Added page on the 1860 Sweden-Denmark cable |
| 12 October | Added book review of Kenneth Silverman's Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F.B. Morse |
| 4 October | Added book review of Gillian Cookson's The Cable: The Wire That Changed The World |
| 10 September | Added section on Early British Experiments in Submarine Telegraphy from Charles V. Walker's 1850 book on telegraphy |
| 10 September | Added new material to Bill Glover's cableship pages |
| 6 July | Added Bill Glover's Cable Timeline - a chronological record of submarine communications cables |
| 1 July | Added material by Bill Glover on the Central & South American Telegraph Company |
| 17 June | Added information on Skewjack Cable Station, Cornwall, to Bill Glover's Porthcurno page |
| 17 June | Added material by Bill Glover on CS Dacia, CS Minia and CS Mackay Bennett and the Titanic |
| 31 May | Added Submarine Cable Laying - 1898 Strand Magazine article by Archer Philip Crouch, C.E. |
| 25 May | Added Henry O'Rielly and the Russo-American Telegraph (1861) |
| 13 May | Added book review of L.J. Davis's Fleet Fire: Thomas Edison and the Pioneers of the Electric Revolution |
| 10 May | Added page on Charles Henry Baker and the Central & South American Telegraph Company, Barranco, Peru |
| 10 May | Added material by Bill Glover on the Malta & Alexandria Telegraph and Glass, Elliot's cableships |
| 30 March | Added material by Bill Glover on the Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Company |
| 23 March | Added the firsthand account of Captain Basil Combe of life on the cableships Silvertown and Dacia in the 1890s |
| 9 March | Added article by Bill Glover on the Anglo American Telegraph Company |
| 5 March | Added Marshall Lefferts at the American Geographical and Statistical Society - speaking in 1856 on The Electric Telegraph; its Influence and Geographical Distribution |
| 1 March | Added extract from Henry Field's book on The Recovery of the Cable in 1866 |
| 25 February | Added 1900 Chandler Hale article on The Projected Cable-Line to the Philippines from The National Review |
| 24 February | Added 1892 article on The Submarine Cables of the World from Manufacturer & Builder |
| 20 February | Added Cyrus Field at the American Geographical and Statistical Society - speaking in 1862 on the Prospects of the Atlantic Telegraph |
| 4 February | Added 1886 Cyrus W. Field article on Government Telegraphy from The North American Review |
| 2 February | Added article by Bill Glover on Western Union |
| 1 February | Added Remarks of Mr Cyrus W. Field at the International Telegraphic Conference. Rome December 28th 1871 |
| 27 January | Added article on another forgotten visionary - Joseph Hyppolyte Pulte and the land route to Europe (1849) |
| 25 January | Added article by Bill Glover on the German Cable Companies |
| 17 January | Added article by Bill Glover on the Commercial Cable Company |
| 10 January | Added article by Bill Glover on Cableship Bold Endurance |
| 8 January | Added Tiffany silver-mounted cable cane to the Souvenirs page |
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Last revised: 6 December 2003