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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| 23 December | Added cableship page by Bill Glover: Scotia | ||
| 10 December | Added 1867 article on the construction and manufacture of the 1866 Atlantic cable, with technical details of the cables of 1858, 1865, and 1866 | ||
| 19 November | Added cableship pages by Bill Glover: Al Hathera, King Feisal (1), Patrick Stewart (2) | ||
| 17 November | Added 1867 article on iceberg damage at Newfoundand to the 1866 Atlantic cable | ||
| 7 November | Added cableship pages by Bill Glover: Cable Enterprise (1), Malim, Norseman (4), Tung-Song | ||
| 28 October | Added 1897 article by Roland Belfort: The Making and Laying of an Atlantic Cable | ||
| 28 October | Added 1895 article by Roland Belfort: At an Atlantic Cable Station | ||
| 27 October | Added cableship pages by Bill Glover: Cormorant (1), Cormorant (2), Norseman (1), Norseman (2) / Norse, Viking (2) | ||
| 25 October | Added page on artist Joshua Taylor | ||
| 14 October | Added page on the China Submarine Telegraph Company's 1871 Singapore - Hong Kong cable | ||
| 12 October | Added cableship pages by Bill Glover: Great Northern, Henry Holmes | ||
| 11 October | Added page on the Indo-European Telegraph Company's 1869 and 1884 Straits of Kertch cables | ||
| 8 October | Added cableship pages by Bill Glover: Buccaneer, La Plata, Silvergray | ||
| 6 October | Added photographs and description of a damaged piece of core recovered in 1885 from the 1868 diversion of the 1858 Dunwich-Zandvoort cable | ||
| 4 October | Added cableship pages by Bill Glover: Bluethroat, John Cabot, Lady Laurier, Sackville, Tyrian, Whitethroat | ||
| 23 September | Added cableship pages by Bill Glover: John Pender (1), Magneta, Retriever (2), Sentinel (1), The Cable, Transmitter, Volta | ||
| 11 September | Added cableship pages by Bill Glover: Alert (1), Hodder, Mersey, Monarch (3), Dellwood, Ellery W. Niles, Hooker, Joseph Henry, Portunus, Silverado, Thor, Yamacraw | ||
| 9 August | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Basil O. Lenoir and CS William A. Glassford | ||
| 8 August | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Albert J. Myer and CS William G. Bullard / CS Neptune | ||
| 7 August | Added extracts from Archer P. Crouch's 1900 book on Silvertown | ||
| 9 July | Added page on Henry Saunders, who worked in the cable industry from 1854 to 1904 | ||
| 3 July | Added page on the 1890 Halifax-Bermuda cable | ||
| 18 June | Added The First Atlantic Telegraph Cable by John Mullaly - a 1907 recap of his original writings | ||
| 11 June | Added obituary of cable pioneer Sir James Anderson | ||
| 7 June | Added new Cable Stories - David Watson's accounts of the laying of the 1968 Sicily-Libya cable (1973) and ANZCAN (1982) | ||
| 29 May | Added page on CS Pacific with an original drawing by Ken Smith | ||
| 18 May | Added pages by Bill Glover on CS Patrol and CS Patrick Stewart (1) with images courtesy of Tony Davies | ||
| 11 March | Added obituary of cable pioneer Willoughby Smith | ||
| 11 March | Added page on recovered samples of the 1850 Dover-Calais cable | ||
| 24 February | Added new Cable Story - Captain Christian Christenson: CS Ydun and the 1902 Mexico cable | ||
| 30 January | Added page by Bill Glover on CS Cyrus Field | ||
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