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	History Magazine - The Transatlantic Cable
		The idea of a transatlantic cable was first proposed in 1845, only a year after the first practical demonstration, but the far greater distances and greater depths presented formidable problems.
		Almost immediately, the cable opened for business but only the very wealthy could afford it -- the initial rates were a startling $1 a letter, payable in gold - at a time that a monthly wage for a laborer might be $20.
		It is interesting to note that even though later cables could carry large numbers of signals at the same time, it was not until the 1960s that the first communication satellites offered a serious alternative to the cable.
	www.history-magazine.com /cable.html (1271 words)

	Atlantic Cable Services, Inc. Home
		Atlantic Cable Services, Inc. is a leading independent provider to the cable industry, specializing in sales, construction and installation.
		Atlantic Cable Services, Inc. strives to keep pace with technology and bring to the table a wide range of services that are in demand by utility providers now and in the future.
		Atlantic Cables Services, Inc. is a company that is always able to get the job done in a timely and professional manner.
	www.atlanticcableserv.com /index.html (143 words)

	Joanne Cable PhD (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cable J and Tinsley RC (1991) Ultrastructure of photoreceptors in Pseudodiplorchis americanus and Neodiplorchis scaphiopodis (Monogenea: Polystomatidae).
		Cable J and Tinsley RC (1992) The ultrastructure of the larval tegument of Pseudodiplorchis americanus.
		Cable J and Tinsley RC (1993) The ultrastructure of spermatogenesis and spermatozoa in Pseudodiplorchis americanus (Monogenea: Polystomatidae).
	www.cardiff.ac.uk /biosi/research/biodiversity/staff/jc2.html (1125 words)

	American Experience \| The Great Transatlantic Cable \| People & Events \| PBS
		When the first transatlantic cable was successfully laid in the summer of 1858, two continents buzzed with the promise of instant communication.
		The problem of retardation, which caused much of the delay that accompanied transmissions through the first cable, was greatly diminished by the innovations of William Thomson, and the cables of the 1860s sent signals across the Atlantic in a matter of seconds.
		The initial rate in 1866 for messages sent along the transatlantic cable was ten dollars a word, with a ten word minimum, meaning that a skilled workman of the day would have to set aside ten weeks' salary in order to send a single message.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/cable/peopleevents/e_use.html (684 words)

	Atlantic Cable -- A small section of a trans-Atlantic submarine cable, c. 1879
		Atlantic Cable -- A small section of a trans-Atlantic submarine cable, c.
		This section of cable was presented to O. French by George G. Ward, Vice President of Mackay Burrnett Cable Co.
		Early cables were limited in the speed of transmission because of the 'retardation' effect to only a few words per minute.
	www.telegraph-office.com /pages/Atlantic_Cable_Piece.html (356 words)

	Atlantic cable - Encyclopedia.com
		Wired worlds tie the knot: $30 billion-plus merger of Bell Atlantic and TCI may be largest in U.S. history; companies say it will foster telco-cable competition.
		Hibernia Atlantic renews Guardian Maintenance Agreement with Global Marine; Confidence high in Guardian service for mission critical cable network as bandwidth demand across the Atlantic continues to rise.
		Atlantic Broadband to Acquire Cable Systems Serving 235,000 Subscribers from Charter; New Company Will Be Top 20 Cable MSO.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-AtlantCab.html (423 words)

	Lord Cable
		The first successful submarine cable was laid across the English Channel in 1851.Most early cables consisted of one or more copper wires insulated with a few millimeters of gutta percha, a rubber-like tree gum from Malaya, and protected by an outer layer of iron wires.
		The first Atlantic cable was greeted as the wonder of the age; one celebration in New York became so spirited that City Hall caught fire and nearly burned down.
		The first Atlantic cable was a spectacular failure whose collapse tainted the reputation of ocean telegraphy as a whole.While Whitehouse was saddled with much of the blame, Thomson drew almost universal praise, with the implication that if his scientific advice had been followed more closely, the cable might have succeeded.
	www.europhysicsnews.com /full/30/article2/article2.html (1850 words)

	History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy -
		The Atlantic Cable website is pleased to have contributed a number of images to the Danish Post and Tele Museum's special exhibition, which ran from 2 February to 19 September 2004.
		The Atlantic Cable website is non-commercial, and its mission is to make available on line as much information as possible.
		Cable samples, instruments, documents, brochures, souvenir books, photographs, family stories, all are valuable to researchers and historians.
	atlantic-cable.com /Article/2004DanishPTT/index.htm (467 words)

	History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy
		Telegraphy and the Atlantic Cable in the U.S. Capitol Dome
		The author was a cable engineer who supervised the manufacture of the 1865 cable and was later superintendent of the Valentia cable station where the recovered 1865 cable terminated.
		The Atlantic Cable - by Bern Dibner, 1959.
	atlantic-cable.com (3475 words)

	Atlantic Cable (Site not responding. Last check: )
		DESCRIBED BY THE writer Arthur C Clarke as the Victorian equivalent of the Apollo project, the laying of the Atlantic telegraph cable was successfully completed in 1866.
		The cable was manufactured by John Pender's cable- making company Telcon and was both lighter and stronger than previous cables which had failed.
		A. Point where cable was buoyed, B. Point where cable was broken, C. Point where cable was brought to the surface.
	www.cwhistory.com /history/html/TransAtlCb.html (150 words)

	Heart's Content, Cable Station
		Drawing on the experience of English cable pioneers, it was decided to fabricate the cable using a core conductor of stranded copper, insulated with layers of "gutta percha", a rubber-like extract recently discovered in Malaya.
		In 1864, however, fabrication of a new Atlantic cable was begun, superior to the 1858 model in terms of insulation, tensile strength, lightness and resistance to corrosion.
		On this occasion the ships of the cable fleet had been equipped with extensive lifting and grappling gear since it was intended to recover and complete the cable lost the previous year.
	www.jproc.ca /ve3fab/hearts_content.html (1101 words)

	60 Centuries of Copper: The Atlantic Cable
		Apart from the mechanical difficulties of splicing and laying such a long cable, those concerned had to take one vital decision at the outset: it was a decision based on the very sparse information available at the time and unfortunately it was a wrong one.
		Kelvin, who was then Professor William Thomson, had already discerned this weakness of cables and had published some important notes on the subject, wherein he showed that the retardation, which is proportional to the length, depended also upon the capacity of the wire and of its gutta-percha covering.
		Whitehouse advocated a small cable and the use of a high current to overcome its resistance, and this procedure was adopted.
	64.90.169.191 /education/60centuries/electrical/theatlantic.html (1113 words)

	Commercial Cable Company Atlantic Cables
		This resulted in an increase in speed and was made possible by the expiry of an "exclusive right" granted to the rival cables when they were laid to St John's.
		In both diversions the remaining cable from Newfoundland to Nova Scotia was kept in use, in the first case becoming part of the new Newfoundland to New York cables of that time and in the second (1926) case being kept for emergency use.[
		There are two more maps in the North Somerset Museum archive that show the CCC cables in a fairly final state.
	www.cial.org.uk /cable60.htm (448 words)

	Atlantic Broadband takes over cable
		Atlantic bought Charter’s much-maligned 6,000 customer cable system in Chesapeake City, Md. and southern New Castle County as part of a $735 million deal announced in September that included 235,000 customers in six states.
		Cable modem service will add to Middletown-area residents’ choices for broadband Internet access, and in some cases will be their only option.
		In addition to adding cable modems, Atlantic is seeking to improve customer service by adding employees at the office on Broad Street in Middletown and increasing the training for call center workers.
	www.middletowntranscript.com /TransArchives/05-27-04/pages/newbroadband.html (417 words)

	CNN.com - Atlantic season: Seven hurricanes, 14 storms, 62 deaths - Nov. 30, 2003
		The 2003 Atlantic hurricane season was busier than usual, with 14 named storms blamed for 62 deaths by the season's end Sunday, but forecasters say it could have been worse.
		Hurricane Fabian was the strongest of the storms to hit land, raking Bermuda with 120 mph wind that tore up roofs and roads in early September.
		Experts had expected the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season to be more active than usual, and it was, exceeding the average of 10 named storms and six hurricanes.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WEATHER/11/30/weatherpage.am.ap/index.html (634 words)

	The Commercial Cable Company
		Two large illuminated translucent geographical globes, showing the company's cable systems, were hung from the ceiling about fifty feet apart, and were connected by five silver cables emblematical of the five transatlantic lines of the Commercial Cable Company.
		Scenes of unusual activity and stern expressions were visible everywhere in the cable offices as the fight for prestige and supremacy began.
		not counting the original cables, the Commercial Cable Company has laid one-half of the new cables In the Atlantic and Commercial Cable employees have contributed to the art of working cables two of the three really notable Improvements since the siphon recorder and the application of the duplex.
	www.cial.org.uk /cable13.htm (1695 words)

	Victorian London - Communications - Telegraph - Laying the Atlantic Cable
		The Atlantic cable may be divided into two parts, the core and the armour—the former being the conductor to be actually employed in the transmission of electrical sensations under the
		The shipping of the great cable has been a gigantic labour, of which we illustrate that portion which was executed at East Greenwich.
		She had anything but a sightly aspect, the dead weight of the cable and the rather ponderous appliances for paying it out having altered her trim appearance for the worse.
	www.victorianlondon.org /communications/telegraphcable.htm (1494 words)

	Atlantic City Television Companies \| Atlantic City Cable Companies (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cable television companies provide television channels to their subscribers via radio frequency signals that are transmitted directly to receivers through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables.
		Cable television companies offer their subscribers a variety of services, including pay-per-view specials and high speed internet access.
		Cable TV has greatly increased the number of channels available to the consumer.
	www.magicyellow.com /category/Cable_Television_Companies/Atlantic_City_NJ.html (344 words)

	Transatlantic telephone cable Summary
		An undersea cable seemed to be the logical answer, but it took nearly a hundred years to follow the first successful trans-Atlantic telegraph cable with a similar telephone cable.
		Although a telephone cable was discussed starting in the 1920s, to be practical it needed a number of technological advances which did not arrive until the 1940s.
		The TAT series of cables constitute a large percentage of all north Atlantic cables, All TAT cables are consortia joint ventures between a number of telecom companies, e.g.
	www.bookrags.com /Transatlantic_telephone_cable (605 words)

	Amazon.com: Circuits in the Sea: The Men, the Ships, and the Atlantic Cable: Books: Chester G. Hearn (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The (almost) countless crossings by Field across the atlantic to attract and retain investors, to oversee elements of the cable's construction, to prepare for the voyages, and to lobby for naval assistance, are faithfully recounted here.
		Using for its sources both contemporary accounts of the cable story, and archival papers and business records of such participants as Cyrus Field and Samuel Morse, Circuits in the Sea gives a detailed and comprehensive report of the enterprise from it shaky beginnings in 1854 to its successful conclusion twelve years later.
		It then moves quickly to the start of the Atlantic cable story with details of Frederick Gisborne's work in Newfoundland which led to his meeting with Cyrus Field in early 1854, and the remainder of the book takes us through the successful completion of the Atlantic cable in 1866.
	www.amazon.com /Circuits-Sea-Ships-Atlantic-Cable/dp/0275982319 (1751 words)

	Transatlantic Cable, Henry Alfred Pickering, Pickering Genealogy
		The elder Pickering became director of the cable laying at the Liverpool end in 1857, and the cable works were installed at the Birkenhead Docks, not far from the Pickering home.
		The cable was laid in 1858 and the day the operator, St. John, sent the first message to the new world, Mr.
		Few know that the first message sent over the first Atlantic cable was not a message from Queen Victoria to the president of the United States as some historians maintain.
	www.fastq.com /~cstover/trans.html (1206 words)

	Atlantic Broadband Launches Cable and Internet Service - dslreports.com
		Atlantic completed its acquisition of several systems formerly operated by Charter Communications on March 1 of this year.
		Maguire said that Atlantic has initiated a number of changes intended to simplify packaging, enhance value and enable customers to create customized packages that meet their needs and their budgets.
		Atlantic now offers the fastest internet connection available to the home.
	www.dslreports.com /shownews/44911 (265 words)

	Atlantic Broadband High-Speed Internet and Cable TV \| Order All These Services at WhiteFence
		Atlantic Broadband's mission is to create and deliver products and services that can simplify and enrich your life through their digital broadband network.
		One of the top 20 cable operators in the United States, Atlantic Broadband provides cystal clear digital cable as well as lightning-fast high-speed Internet service.
		Atlantic Broadband's popular packages include features like all your favorite channels, including all local channels, and the option to add premium movie channels like HBO and Showtime, as well as international and sports packages where available.
	www.whitefence.com /atlantic (165 words)

	Provincial Historic Site
		Drawing on the experience of English cable pioneers, it was decided to fabricate the cable using a core conductor of stranded copper, insulated with layers of "gutta percha", a rubber-like extract recently discovered in Malaya.
		In 1864, however, fabrication of a new Atlantic cable was begun, superior to the 1858 model in terms of insulation, tensile strength, lightness and non-corrosiveness.
		On this occasion the ships of the cable fleet had been equipped with extensive lifting and grappling gear since it was intended to recover and complete the cable lost the previous year.
	www.ewh.ieee.org /reg/7/diglib/library/hearts-content/historic/provsite.html (966 words)

	Hibernia Atlantic :: Hibernia Atlantic Calls For Increased Submarine Cable Awareness
		Hibernia Atlantic is concerned that the cables' importance as an economic infrastructure has not been properly addressed within the global community.
		Hibernia Atlantic has been actively educating and promoting its cable diversity to governments, carriers, enterprise customers and related industries, assuring all that Hibernia's Trans-Atlantic cable is as diverse as possible from all other submarine cables.
		Already Hibernia Atlantic works closely with the submarine industry and fishing communities to increase awareness of all cable systems, in order to avoid accidental damage or cuts of submarine cables.
	sev.prnewswire.com /telecommunications/20060829/NYTU03829082006-1.html (617 words)

	Cable - News - Atlantic Cable services suspended - Digital Spy
		"The board of Atlantic regrets to announce that, having pursued detailed discussions with an informal committee of noteholders, as well as with potential sources of finance and possible purchasers of the Group's assets, it has not been possible to agree satisfactory terms for a refinancing and restructuring of the group."
		Trading of Atlantic shares was suspended before the opening of trade Friday; the price was just 5 pence per share - valuing the business at £10m.
		Check out what's on cable in your region with our comprehensive Local Channel Lineups, get your cable-related questions answered with our handy Spy Guides, and track the progress of the Video on Demand revolution in our Complete Coverage area.
	www.digitalspy.co.uk /article/ds3924.html (407 words)

	Politics & Society
		Atlantic senior editor Clive Crook weighs in on the private-equity business—why it's booming, where it's headed, and what it means for American capitalism.
		Two new studies of cable news throw light on the sources of Bush's failure-proof support.
		Atlantic writings from 1910 to 1960 make clear that reforming the state of American health care has long been a pressing concern.
	www.theatlantic.com /politics/politics.htm (659 words)

	George Glazer Gallery - Atlantic Cable Specimen Autograph Album
		A rectangular label securing the cable, on the inside of the front cover, specifies: "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1858, by Eugene Ely, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York.
		This Specimen of the Atlantic Cable guaranteed to be genuine by the Publisher.
		At the time the Atlantic Cable Charm Album was produced, late in his career, his business was located at 315 Broadway.
	www.georgeglazer.com /prints/com/atcabalbum.html (501 words)

	Atlantic cable — Infoplease.com
		cable - cable cable, originally wire cordage of great strength or heavy metal chain used for hauling,...
		Wired worlds tie the knot: $30 billion-plus merger of Bell Atlantic and TCI may be largest in U.S. history; companies say it will......
		Cable: we'll intervene in Bell suit; Bell Atlantic opposes the NCTA's intervention in the case, while others support it.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/sci/A0910494.html (204 words)

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