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Latest revision as of 16:07, June 27, 2016
Submarine telegraph cables are insulated copper cables laid along the bottom of a sea or ocean for telegraphic communication. The first short cable was laid across the English Channel in 1851. The first successful transatlantic cable was laid in 1866.
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The Earth and Its Peoples A Global History, Bulliet et al., 2005.