When the first transatlantic cable was successfully laid in the summer of 1858, two continents buzzed with the promise of instant communication. The Times of London went so far as to declare ...

In the mid-19th century, a daring dream took shape as two nations celebrated the historic link created by an undersea cable beneath the English Channel. But one man, Frederic Newton Gisborne, ...

The First Attempts to Lay the Transatlantic Cable (1857-1858): The first attempts to lay the transatlantic cable from Ireland to Newfoundland were fraught with bad luck and repeated setbacks.

In the 1850s Morse’s single wire cable system was working all over Europe. In 1858 Queen Victoria sent the first transatlantic message to President James Buchanan. The system failed a month later.

The first transatlantic telephone cable to be landed in Ireland was brought ashore in County Cork this morning. It is part of three hundred million pound project which will make this country ...