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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| 11 December | Added page on 1875 Society of Telegraph Engineers Conversazione, Latimer Clark | |
| 26 October | Added page on 1874 USA-Japan cable, proposed and surveyed but never laid | |
| 15 October | Added new Cable Story - Captain H.W.M. Milne, Eastern Telegraph Company 1919-1955 | |
| 9 October | Added article on Mr. Henley’s Gigantic Magneto-electric Machines | |
| 30 September | Added article by William H. Russell on the 1865 Atlantic Telegraph expedition | |
| 27 September | Added page by Steven Roberts on John Connellan Deane | |
| 6 September | Added article by Dave Boyle: Touching the Net - cables at Loch Awe, Scotland | |
| 6 September | Added new Cable Story - John Curley, Purser on HMTS Monarch (4) | |
| 3 September | Added John C Deane’s manuscript Diary of the 1866 Atlantic Telegraph Expedition | |
| 28 July | Added new Cable Story - Robert Langley Boyd, Eastern Telegraph Company cableship captain | |
| 7 June | Added page on the 1887 Porthcurno-Zante cable | |
| 15 May | Added cableship pages by Bill Glover: Bankville, Loch Nevis, Miner VII, Ringdove, St Oran | |
| 6 May | Added page on Rudyard Kipling's poem The Deep-Sea Cables, with illustrations by W. Heath Robinson | |
| 2 May | Added page on the 1849 Folkestone Harbour cable | |
| 17 March | Added page by Jan Verhelst and Bill Burns on the Commercial Cable Company Antwerp Station | |
| 6 March | Added page on 1858 Atlantic Cable letter opener to the Memorabilia section | |
| 28 February | Added page on the 1923 Commercial Cable Company Atlantic cable | |
| 24 February | Added article Summary of the Progress of Submarine Telegraphy [1869-1894] | |
| 24 February | Added checklist of Post Office Green Papers | |
| 19 February | Added page on Eastern Telegraph Company Telegraph Cable Service Badge | |
| 17 February | Added Wildman Whitehouse 1858 documents: Letter from a Shareholder and William Thomson letter. | |
| 17 February | Added cableship pages by Bill Glover: Cecile Mapleson, Newton, Sprayville, X216 | |
| 15 February | Added cableship pages by Bill Glover: Holdfast, Latimer, Persephone, Sancroft | |
| 14 February | Added new Cable Story - Grace Markham and the Great Northern Telegraph Company in WWII | |
| 8 February | Added cableship pages by Bill Glover: Matai, Mernoo, Tutanekai | |
| 26 January | Added cableship pages by Bill Glover: Amberwitch, Calcutta, Cospatrick, Kirkham & Assaye | |
| 17 January | Added page on electrical power cables and how to tell the difference | |
| 17 January | Added new Cable Stories - Karl Howard's account of drafting the cable corridor for ANZCAN | |
| 8 January | Added 1849 article on early submarine cable experiments | |
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