History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications
from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network

1881 United States - Mexico Cable

Manufactured by the India Rubber Gutta Percha & Telegraph Works for the Mexican Telegraph Company, this cable was laid in 1881 by CS Dacia and CS International.

Running from Galveston - Tampico - Vera Cruz, the total cable length was 738 nm.

Research Material Needed

The Atlantic Cable website is non-commercial, and its mission is to make available on line as much information as possible.

You can help - if you have cable material, old or new, please contact me. Cable samples, instruments, documents, brochures, souvenir books, photographs, family stories, all are valuable to researchers and historians.

If you have any cable-related items that you could photograph, copy, scan, loan, or sell, please email me: billb@ftldesign.com