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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| 26 December | Added further information on the Expeditionary Force Message service | ||||||||||||
| 18 December | Added new section on 19th century souvenirs made from slices of cable | ||||||||||||
| 14 December | Added 1859 article on the silver testimonial presented to F.N Gisborne in 1857 in recognition of his pioneering work on the Atlantic Cable project | ||||||||||||
| 12 December | Added 1858 Charles Magnus Map of Trinity Bay, Telegraph Station of the Atlantic-Cable | ||||||||||||
| 30 November | Added page on the 1956 opening ceremony for TAT-1, the first submarine telephone cable. Includes audio file and transcript of the official first telephone call over the cable. | ||||||||||||
| 6 September | Added Engineering Facts and Figures for 1866: Atlantic Telegraph - an overview of technical details of the 1858, 1865, and 1866 Atlantic cables | ||||||||||||
| 3 September | Added 1866 New York Times article: Affairs at Hearts Content–The Great Eastern–Her Officers, &c. | ||||||||||||
| 2 September | Added chapters from Willoughby Smith’s book on the 1850 & 1851 Dover-Calais Cables | ||||||||||||
| 30 August | Added article by Stewart Ash on an 1857 Atlantic Cable Pendant | ||||||||||||
| 13 August | Added cableship page by Bill Glover: Elveshorn / Poolster (1) / Ingenieur-en-Chef Hanff | ||||||||||||
| 10 August | Added 1925 Signal Corps article on the Alaska Cable System | ||||||||||||
| 31 July | Added page on 19th Century Telcon Jointing Instruction Case | ||||||||||||
| 31 July | Added page on Captain Jack Sleeth's Ohio River Cable at Paducah, Kentucky | ||||||||||||
| 20 June | Added cableship pages by Bill Glover: A.B. Wood II, Peggy G | ||||||||||||
| 6 June | Added page on The Safety Insulated Wire & Cable Company of New York | ||||||||||||
| 19 March | Added page on the 1961 CANTAT cable | ||||||||||||
| 17 March | Added page on the 1931 Miami - Key Biscayne - Fowey Rock Light US Coast Guard cable | ||||||||||||
| 17 March | Added 1938 article on the history of the Simplex Wire & Cable Company | ||||||||||||
| 12 March | Added cableship pages by Bill Glover: Cable Queen, Dickenson, Edourard Jeramec, George Ward, Lidiv, Robert C. Clowry | ||||||||||||
| 20 February | Added page: “Was the Atlantic Cable A Humbug!” - a controversy fought in the pages of the Boston Courier in early 1859. | ||||||||||||
| 17 February | Added cableship page by Bill Glover: Duchess Of Marlborough (later Mexican) | ||||||||||||
| 16 February | Added cableship pages by Bill Glover: Emile Baudot, Guardian | ||||||||||||
| 15 February | Added Commercial Cable Company at Le Havre | ||||||||||||
| 14 February | Added cableship page by Bill Glover: Marie Louise Mackay | ||||||||||||
| 26 January | Added article on the manufacture of the 1873 Rio de Janeiro - Para Cable | ||||||||||||
| 8 January | Added page on 1858 Invitation: Atlantic Cable Grand National Ball, Clyde Hotel | ||||||||||||
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