from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network
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History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network |
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| 29 November | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Sarah Bryant, CS Seine, CS Suffolk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 November | Added 1861 publication: Lecture on the Insulation of Submarine Cables by Charles West | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 November | Added page on the Cape Town Cable Station, 1890 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 November | Added 1859 report on a presentation by Charles West of Silver's Patent Caoutchouc Insulator | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 November | Added article on an 1874 visit to the Siemens Brothers factory at Charlton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 November | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Resolute, CS Rhiwderin, CS Robert Lowe, CS Roddam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 23 October | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Persian, CS Professor Morse, CS Propontis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 October | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Narva, CS Newfield, CS Okinawa Maru, CS Orizaba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 28 September | Added page on the 1858 Cable Jubilee in Albany, New York, which includes details of a cable sample presented by Emery Brothers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 September | Added page on the laying of the 1866 River Plate cable, from an original newspaper account | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 September | Added new Cable Story - Captain Samuel Trott of CS Minia: “How Cables are Laid and Repaired” (1895 talk) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 September | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Levant I, CS Marion Moore, CS Medina, CS Medway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 23 August | Added contemporary accounts of the 1899 fitting out and subsequent sinking of CS Hooker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18 August | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS International and CS Investigator | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 August | Added story on the 1866 expedition and original Joseph Becker sketches to the page on the 1865 cable expedition as reported in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 August | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Hawk, CS Hawthorns and CS Hibernia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 August | Added W.T. Henley's Telegraph Works Co. Ltd. Long Service Certificate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 August | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Genesta and CS Gomos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 August | Added new Cable Story - Kristian Nielsen, laying the BLAST system in American Samoa, CS Intrepid, May 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 August | Added four new images to the Atlantic Cable Broadsides page | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 July | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Edinburgh and CS Elba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 July | Added page by Bill Glover on CS Dix Décembre (later CS Ampere (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 July | Added 1890 article on the 50th wedding anniversary testimonial for Cyrus West Field and Mary Bryan Stone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 July | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Berwick, CS Calabria, CS Caroline, CS Chevy Chase | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 June | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Belgian, CS Blazer (1), CS Blazer (2), CS Britannia (1), CS Brunswick | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 June | Added page on the 1865 cable expedition as reported in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, New York | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 June | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Albany, CS Ambassador, CS Archimedes, CS Argus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 26 May | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Africa and CS Agnes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 May | Added page by Allan Green of archive indexes for W.T. Henley's Telegraph Works Company | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 26 April | Added page on John Young: the northern route connection and the Russian-American telegraph | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 25 April | Added article by Tim Knox on Punta Rassa Cable Station and the Sinking of USS Maine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 April | Added page by Bill Glover on HMS Amethyst and HMS Iris, used as cable hulks to transfer cable to Great Eastern in 1865, 1866, and 1869. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 19 April | Bill Glover has completed extensive additions to the 1845-1900 Cable Timeline based on original Telcon manufacturing records recently provided by Alcatel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 April | Added lithograph by Henry M. Ash based on his pencil drawings made on the 1884 Atlantic cable expedition | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 March | Added new Cable Story - Alexander Purse Murdoch. CS Faraday (2) North Atlantic cable repairs (1929) and Bass Strait cable expedition (1935) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 26 February | Added official reports of meetings of the Atlantic Telegraph Company for February 1858 and December 1858 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 January | Added photographs of USNS Albert J. Myer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 29 January | Added section on CS Newington | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18 January | Added page on the contribution of Standard Telephones & Cables (STC) to TAT-1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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