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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 - 2002 |
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| 27 November | Added note on the Submarine Cables Trust (1887 document) |
| 17 November | Added article by Bill Glover on Cableship Faraday (1) |
| 11 November | Added articles by Bill Glover on Cableship John W. Mackay and cable company Italcable |
| 3 November | Added 1884 article: On The Causes Of Failure Of Deep-Sea Cables by James Graves. |
| 6 October | Added article by Bill Glover on Cableship Cable Innovator |
| 30 September | Added articles by Bill Glover on Cableship Monarch (5) and MV Dock Express 20 |
| 24 September | Added article by Bill Glover on Cableship Nexus |
| 19 September | Added photograph of two versions of Cyrus Field's Congressional Medal, courtesy of Randy Cole |
| 4 August | Added article by Bill Glover on Ascension Island and the cable station |
| 13 July | Added full text of R.S. Newall's 1882 pamphlet: Facts and Observations Relating to the Invention of the Submarine Cable |
| 9 July | Added page for sample case of the 1877 Marseilles to Bona cable |
| 27 June | Added review of John Steele Gordon's new book A Thread Across the Ocean |
| 17 June | Added articles from the children's magazine Robert Merry's Museum (1858) |
| 9 June | Added article by Bill Glover on Cable Rates & Services |
| 1 June | Added: On Submerging Telegraphic Cables - report on a paper presented on February 16, 1858, to the Institution of Civil Engineers (London) |
| 25 May | Added article by Bill Glover on the Porthcurno Cable Station |
| 24 May | Added article on Horatio Hubbell, a forgotten cable pioneer |
| 24 May | Added images and text of an original letter from Sir Daniel Gooch describing the loss of the cable on the 1865 Great Eastern expedition |
| 22 May | Added new article to Bill Glover's history of Cable & Wireless |
| 18 May | Added new section for cable equipment |
| 5 May | Added: London And North Western Railway Telegraph Rules And Regulations - scans of 1871 employee handbook |
| 26 February | Added 1877 memoir by Peter Cooper on The Laying of the Ocean Cable |
| 24 February | Added 1890 article on the 1883 Cadiz-Teneriffe cable: With a Cable Expedition by Herbert Laws Webb |
| 13 February | Added article on the French Cable Station Museum at Orleans, MA |
| 2 February | Added article by Bill Glover on British Submarine Cable Manufacturers |
| 31 January | Added new material to the Stamps pages. |
| 31 January | Added a new page on Cable Companies |
| 24 January | Added article on the 1869 French Atlantic Cable, with stereoviews |
| 1 January | Added note on the manufacture of the 1850 Channel cable to the Submarine Telegraph Company page. |
| 24 December 2001 | Added Sarony, New York, CDV to the Cyrus Field page. |
| 1 November 2001 | Added Watkins, London, CDV of Field to the Cyrus Field page. |
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