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	Encyclopedia: Transatlantic telegraph cable
		The Transatlantic telegraph cable is a telegraph cable that crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Valentia Island, in western Ireland to Trinity Bay, in eastern Newfoundland.
		The Transatlantic cable bridged the North American continent with that of Europe, and expedited communication between the two; whereas a message would normally take days to physically deliver by ship would now be a matter of minutes using a telegraph system.
		Cyrus Field was the instigator of the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable between North America and Europe August 5th 1858.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Transatlantic-telegraph-cable (1071 words)

	Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ ArtisticNudity.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone had introduced their working telegraph in 1839, the idea of a submarine line across the Atlantic Ocean began to be thought of as a possible triumph of the future.
		The Atlantic cable was a theme for innumerable sermons and a prodigious quantity of doggerel.
		The recovered cable was then spliced to a fresh cable in her hold, and paid out to Heart's Content, Newfoundland, where she arrived on Saturday, September 7.
	www.artisticnudity.com /encyclopedia/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable (2178 words)

	Transatlantic telephone cable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A transatlantic telephone cable is a submarine communications cable that carries telephone traffic under the Atlantic Ocean between North America and Europe.
		While the first transatlantic telegraph cable had been laid in 1858, by business man Cyrus Field, it had only operated for a month.
		The TAT series of cables constitute a large percentage of all north Atlantic cables, All TAT cables are joint ventures between ATandT and one of several European telecom companies, e.g.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transatlantic_telephone_cable (306 words)

	cable on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		CABLE [cable] originally wire cordage of great strength or heavy metal chain used for hauling, towing, supporting the roadway of a suspension bridge, or securing a large ship to its anchor or mooring.
		One type of electric cable consists of a core protected by twisted wire strands and suitably insulated, especially when it is used to cross oceans undersea; a message transmitted by cable is known as a cablegram or cable.
		The coaxial cable, which is virtually immune to external interference, consists of two concentric conductors separated by an insulator; the current in the inner conductor draws the current in the outer conductor toward the center rather than letting it dissipate outwards.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/c1/cable.asp (700 words)

	ipedia.com: Transatlantic telegraph cable Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Her immense hull was fitted with three iron tanks for the reception of 2,300 miles of cable, and her decks furnished with the paying-out gear.
		This attempt failed on July 31, after 1,062 miles had been paid out, the cable snapped near the stern of the ship, and the end was lost.
		[1] Arriving in mid-ocean after thirty casts of the grapnel, she hooked and raised it to surface, then spliced it to a fresh cable in her hold, and paid out to Heart's Content, where she arrived on Saturday, September 7.
	www.ipedia.com /transatlantic_telegraph_cable.html (1323 words)

	Cyrus W. Field completes 1st transatlantic telegraph cable August 5 in History
		Cyrus W. Field completes 1st transatlantic telegraph cable August 5 in History
		Cyrus W. Field completes 1st transatlantic telegraph cable
		Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
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