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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| 21 December | Added short article by Liam Morris: The Maths Behind the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 29 November | Updated the 1851 Dover-Calais Cable page with images of a newly-discovered cable sample and articles on the project | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 26 September | Added photograph of the 1870 cable hut at Cap d'Antifer (Le Havre) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 September | Added 1891 article The Submarine Telegraphs of the World | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 September | Added photographs and conservation information on the 1951 cable hut at Southport, Australia, for the 1902 Pacific Cable | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 27 July | Added new photographs of CS Levant I and HMS Bullfinch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 27 June | Added story of Michael Mallia and the 1941 sinking of CS Retriever (3) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 May | Added article on the traffic on TAT-1 during its first four weeks of operation in 1956 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 May | Added page on George W. Hook and the 1926 telephone cables between Britain and Europe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 April | Added story on a recently discovered 1858 Atlantic cable cane | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 March | Added page on The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and the Commercial Pacific Cable | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 March | Added page on Bell Telephone Laboratories Technical Reprints, a series of papers published beginning in the early 1920s which presented many significant advances in communications technology, including submarine cable design and operation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 January | Added 1866 paper by Edward Bright: Description of the Manufacture, Laying and Working of the Cables of 1865 and 1866; with an Explanation of the Means Employed for Recovering the Lost Cable of 1865. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 January | Added page on the landing of the 1858 Atlantic cable in Newfoundland, and the Atlantic Telegraph Company's station there. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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