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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 - 2005 |
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| 23 December | Added new Cable Story: Brendan Keane - CS Ocean Layer |
| 7 November | Updated the 1853 England - Holland Cable page with additional images and text by Bill Glover |
| 5 November | Added page by Bill Glover on the 1853 England - Belgium Cable |
| 9 October | Added page by Bill Glover on the Abermawr Cable Station |
| 9 October | Added page by Bill Glover on the Great Eastern |
| 14 September | Added page by Bill Glover on CS Von Podbielski |
| 13 September | Added pages by Bill Glover on HMS Kilmun and HMS Lasso |
| 13 September | Added page on the 1973 BRACAN Brazil - Canary Islands cable |
| 20 August | Added page on the 1971 TRANSCAN Trans-Canary cable |
| 17 August | Added page on the 1870-73 West India & Panama Telegraph Co cable |
| 13 August | Added 1886 article on the Commercial Cable Company's Canso Station |
| 14 August | Added page on the 1873 Para - Rio de Janeiro cable |
| 13 August | Added 1885 article on the career of James Graves, Superintendent of the Valentia Cable Station |
| 22 July | Added article and photos on The Gutta Percha Company - insulation, and more; one of Telcon's predecessor companies |
| 24 June | Added new Cable Story: James Joseph Cope, Siemens Brothers and CS Faraday, 1900-1913 |
| 20 June | Added new Cable Story: James Nicol cableship voyages, 1870-74 |
| 22 May | Added page for Cyrus Field Family Portraits - images of paintings of Cyrus Field and his parents, wife, and sons, owned by Peter Christian Hall and Alix-Marie Hall, New York City-based siblings whose great-grandfather was Frederick Joseph Stone, Cyrus Field's nephew |
| 1 May | Added pages by Bill Glover on cables in Australia, India, and New Zealand |
| 1 May | Added page by Bill Glover on CS John Pender (2) |
| 27 April | Added page for Cyrus Field's Descendants - Diane Gravlee's comprehensive list of Cyrus Field's family and descendants, down to the sixth generation |
| 15 April | Added page for the Bell Laboratories CS Fantastic cable ship mock-up |
| 15 April | Added 1879 Vanity Fair biography and Spy caricature of Sir George Elliot |
| 6 March | Added page on the 1972 Florida - Bahamas Cable |
| 5 March | Added page on the 1969 Japan - Siberia Cable |
| 5 March | Added page on the 1963 Western Electric lightweight S D Ocean Cable |
| 21 February | Added page on the 1957 HAW-1 California-Hawaii telephone cable |
| 12 February | Added 1974 article on the 1858 Tiffany cable samples, with the story of how they re-surfaced after 116 years. |
| 12 February | Added photographic commemorative card for the 1866 Atlantic Cable to the Memorabilia page |
| 11 February | Added to the Porthcurno page an article from The Telegraphist, 1885: Porthcurnow Telegraph Station |
| 7 February | Added article by David Howard to Cable Stories - losing a buoy on CS Retriever, 1968 |
| 3 February | Added article from The Telegraphist, 1885: The India-rubber, Gutta-percha, and Telegraph Works Company, Limited (Silvertown) |
| 3 February | Added article from The Telegraphist, 1885: Valentia Cable Station |
| 3 February | Added article from The Telegraphist, 1886: The Commercial Cable Company |
| 22 January | Added article from The Telegraphist, 1884: A Visit to the Works of Messrs. Siemens Bros. |
| 17 January | Added page by Bill Glover on CS Cable Enterprise (2) |
| 16 January | Extensive updates to the Cable & Wireless page by Bill Glover |
| 9 January | Added section by Bill Glover on the French Cable Companies |
| 9 January | Added page by Bill Glover on CS Mirror (1), later CS Norseman (3) |
| 9 January | Added link to The Great Transatlantic Cable website - a new documentary to be broadcast 11 April 2005 on PBS (USA) as part of the American Experience series. |
| 9 January | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Bullfinch and CS Sovereign |
| 7 January | Added page on the 1906 Auction Sale of Cyrus Field's Correspondence and Papers - many interesting and unusual items from Field's library |
| 6 January | Added article on Cyrus Field's Will, which includes details of the many awards and souvenirs that Field collected in his long association with the cable industry |
| 6 January | Added pages by Bill Glover on the Direct United States Cable Company and Canadian Government cables |
| 4 January | Added pages by Bill Glover on cable and support ships Atlantida, Asean Restorer, Discovery, Giulio Verne, Northern, Thales Venturer, Zeus |
| 2 January | Added Cables Under The Ocean - 1892 cable system survey article from the New York Times |
| 1 January | Added obituary of Sir John Pender, July 1896 |
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Last revised: 21 February, 2006