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 ...

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.

When the first successful transatlantic cable opened for business on August 16, 1858, it was something of a nine-day wonder. Though it could only carry about one byte of Morse code every two ...

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 ...

As cables connecting over longer distances ... upfront trends that underpins the value and need for transatlantic interconnection. First, in the future, power grids on both sides of the Atlantic ...

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.