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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 - 2006 |
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| 19 December | Added page on the 1859 Batavia (Java) - Singapore Cable |
| 19 December | Added page on the 1894 Anglo-American Cable |
| 26 November | Added 1936 article on the Bass Strait Telephone Cable |
| 18 November | Added photo portfolio to Bill Glover's CS Retriever (5) page |
| 15 November | Added page by Bill Glover on CS Faraday (2) |
| 31 October | Added page on the 1890 CS Westmeath cable survey |
| 27 October | Added new Cable Story: Walter Claypoole and the Far Rockaway and Canso stations of the Commercial Cable Company at the beginning of World War I. |
| 6 October | Added new Cable Story: Richard Williamson and the 1858 Atlantic Cable |
| 6 October | Added page on the 1926 Porthcurno - Bay Roberts - New York cable |
| 26 August | Added review of Cable Lay & Maintenance Vessels of the World, Third Edition |
| 26 August | Added article by Steven Roberts: Distant Writing - The Telegraph Companies in Britain between 1838 and 1868 |
| 26 July | Added page on 1858 Atlantic cable seal, from the Bell Canada Historical Collection. |
| 24 July | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Leon Thevenin, CS Raymond Croze, CS Vercors/Chamarel |
| 23 July | Added archive copy of Dirk van Oudenol's comprehensive website on the operations of CS Restorer from 1902-1951 |
| 7 July | Added new Cable Story: John S. Whaley - All America Cables, Santa Elena Station, Ecuador |
| 7 July | Added new Cable Story: John Brown - CS Contre Amiral Caubet |
| 3 July | Added page on the 1861 Malta-Alexandria cable |
| 17 June | Added page on the 1854-1857 Mediterranean cables |
| 10 June | Added page on the Brown Drum Relay |
| 29 May | Added page on cable ship builders Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Ltd. |
| 26 May | Added page on 1970 Transatlantic Telephone Cable TAT-5 |
| 26 May | Added page on 1960 Florida-Puerto Rico cable (FLORICO) |
| 21 May | Added new illustrations to the 1850 Dover-Calais cable and Submarine Telegraph Company pages |
| 9 May | Added new Cable Story: Peter Edwards - CS Recorder (2) and CS Edward Wilshaw |
| 2 May | Added 1865 paper by William Thomson on The Forces Concerned in the Laying and Lifting of Deep-sea Cables. |
| 1 May | Added article by Russell Carpenter on The Brothers Field - the history of the five brothers of the Field family who attended Williams College. |
| 1 May | Added new Cable Story: Memoirs of a Cable Engineer by Dave Smith |
| 30 April | Added page on 1925 All America New York-Cuba cable |
| 30 March | Added page on CS Cable Restorer |
| 30 March | Added page on CS Sir Eric Sharp (now CS IT Intrepid) |
| 25 March | Added article on the manufacture of the 1884 Mackay-Bennett Atlantic cables |
| 24 March | Added review of the new edition of William H. Russell's 1865 book The Atlantic Telegraph |
| 20 March | Added 1859 Australia and China Telegraph map to the Maps section |
| 15 March | Added 1858 Cable Earrings to the Memorabilia section |
| 15 March | Added new Cable Story:George Smith - CS Alert (4) |
| 12 March | Added new Cable Story:Lionel Voss - CS Faraday (2), HMTS Alert (2) |
| 6 March | Added article by Herman Blanton on the medals presented after the success of the 1866 cable: The Atlantic Cable Medal of 1866 |
| 1 March | David Watson continues his Memoirs with CANTAT and CS Mercury, 1973 |
| 20 February | Added new Cable Story: Leo Parrish - CS Long Lines |
| 15 February | Added new Cable Story: Mike Bonds - Life on Cableships in the 1950s |
| 6 February | Added new Cable Story: Henry Ash - CS Faraday (1) sketches |
| 31 January | David Watson continues his Memoirs with a story of laying cables on land and at sea |
| 28 January | Added technical article on Telcon's 1947 Telcothene cable |
| 27 January | Added page on CS Stanley Angwin |
| 26 January | Added new Cable Story: Jack Jenkins - CS Mercury |
| 25 January | Added page on CS Lord Kelvin |
| 25 January | Added page on the African Direct Telegraph Company by Bill Glover |
| 24 January | Added page on the 1932 Dakar-Conakry cable |
| 13 January | Added page on HMTS Alert (2) by Bill Glover |
| 13 January | Added new Cable Story: Memoirs of an STC Project Engineer by David Watson |
| 11 January | Added page on Splicing Repeaters by David Watson |
| 9 January | Added new Cable Story: Jim Coulson - HMTS Iris, Ariel, Monarch, Ocean Layer |
| 2 January | Added page on Telegraph Island, a waystation on the 1864 Britain-India cable route |
| 2 January | Added article by Bill Glover & Bill Burns on South African Cables |
| 1 January | Added page on KFK cable company Smoker's Companion |
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Last revised: 24 December, 2019