Made of a 5mm copper wire 'core' wrapped in a protective casing of tar, hemp and steel this short section of the first Transatlantic Telegraph Cable was salvaged from the ocean floor off the west ...

Cable 'tree', decorative souvenir of the 1858 transatlantic submarine telegraph cable, made by George Rapson, England, 1858. Five short sections of original cable mounted vertically and joined by ...

And there was no shortage of motivation: prior to the building of a trans-Atlantic cable, the fastest ships of the day took a week to cross the ocean. Attempting a project on such a grand scale ...

So much so, in fact, that a saving of just six milliseconds in transmission time is all that is required to justify the laying of the first transatlantic communications cable for 10 years at a ...

The 19th century transatlantic cable on Valentia Island is one of three ... Rathcroghan and the Hill of Tara along with potential for a cross-Border project at Emain Macha. Ireland has just ...

Marea's route is south of existing transatlantic cable systems, most of which are located in New York and New Jersey. "Being physically separate from the other cables helps ensure more resilient ...