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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| 27 December | Added review of Tim Harding's book Correspondence Chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824-1987 | ||
| 24 December | Added page on the Hawaii-Japan Trans Pacific Cable 1, 1964 | ||
| 10 December | Added new Cable Story - Ken Smith, Cable Jointer- life on board cable ships during the war and after | ||
| 26 November | Added 1912 article on a visit to W.T. Henley's Telegraph Works Co., Ltd. | ||
| 3 September | Added page by Bill Glover on the 1870 Bombay-Aden-Suez cable | ||
| 3 September | Added page by Bill Glover on the Western Union cable station at Penzance | ||
| 30 August | Added article by Steven Roberts on John W. Brett - the first comprehensive writing on the life and work of this cable pioneer | ||
| 12 August | Added page on the 1870 Salcombe - Brest cable | ||
| 2 August | Added news report from 1890 on a tribute to Cyrus Field on his 50th wedding anniversary | ||
| 10 July | Added new Cable Story - Hugh McDonald Campbell, CS Faraday (2) | ||
| 5 July | Added page on the International Cable Protection Committee, with souvenir items | ||
| 26 June | Added Old Cable Stories Retold by Frederick C. Webb, a series published in The Electrician from 1884-86 | ||
| 21 June | Added page by Steven Roberts on CS Monarch (1) - the first custom-fitted cableship | ||
| 21 June | Added page by Steven Roberts on Fenton, Hyde & Company – the mystery cable maker | ||
| 15 June | Added page on Frederick C. Webb, who worked on some of the earliest cables | ||
| 4 June | Added 1899 article on Scottish Cable Huts | ||
| 2 June | Added report on the laying of the 1851 Channel cable | ||
| 19 May | Added page on SL fiber optic cable - report on the first ever deep-sea trials of lightguide cable in 1982 | ||
| 18 May | Added page on the 1899/1900 Cape Town - St Helena - Ascension - St Vincent cable | ||
| 12 May | Added article on Making the 1865 Atlantic Cable - a factory visit | ||
| 18 April | Added page on cables at Le Havre, France | ||
| 12 April | Added page by Bill Glover on Captain Robert Halpin of the Great Eastern | ||
| 1 March | Added page on Sir John Pender and the Silver Jubilee of the Establishment of Submarine Telegraphy to the Far East - 1894 | ||
| 1 March | Added page on the 1866 South Foreland (England) - La Panne (Belgium) Cable | ||
| 28 February | Added page on the 1883 Fishguard (Wales) - Blackwater (Ireland) Cable | ||
| 28 February | Added full text of Frederick R Window's anonymously published 1859 pamphlet The Atlantic and South Atlantic Telegraphs | ||
| 28 February | Added page on an early 1900s Telcon cable sample case | ||
| 25 February | Added page on the 1982/1983 Burgau (Portugal) cables | ||
| 23 February | Added technical article on the 1921 Key West to Havana Submarine Telephone Cable | ||
| 12 February | Added page by Steven Roberts on Captain William Rowett, the inventor and promoter of a hemp-covered “light cable” | ||
| 10 February | Added page by Tom Hambright on the International Ocean Telegraph Company at Key West | ||
| 10 February | Added page by J. Gregory Griffin on the history of the Key West to Havana Submarine Telephone Cables | ||
| 1 February | Added page by Steven Roberts on the Great Eastern's first cable | ||
| 24 January | Added page by Bill Glover on CS Pouyer-Quertier | ||
| 20 January | Added full text of Wildman Whitehouse's 1855 paper: Report of a Series of Experimental Observations on Two Lengths of Electric Cable, Containing, in the Aggregate, 1,125 Miles of Wire | ||
| 15 January | Added page by Steven Roberts on Thomas Allan, the inventor and promoter of “light cable” | ||
| 15 January | Added page on cable report books published by the India Rubber, Gutta Percha, and Telegraph Works Co., Limited | ||
| 1 January | Added page by Bill Glover on the Commercial Telegram Bureaux | ||
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