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  2. Transatlantic telegraph cable - Wikipedia

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    Transatlantic telegraph cables were undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. Telegraphy is an obsolete form of communication, and the cables have long since been decommissioned, but telephone and data are still carried on other transatlantic telecommunications cables. The Atlantic Telegraph Company led by ...

  3. Transatlantic communications cable - Wikipedia

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    Transatlantic communications cable. A transatlantic telecommunications cable is a submarine communications cable connecting one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, each cable was a single wire. After mid-century, coaxial cable came into use, with amplifiers. Late in the 20th century, all cables ...

  4. Daily Mail Trans-Atlantic Air Race - Wikipedia

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    Organised by the Daily Mail newspaper, the race was held between 4 and 11 May 1969, although named an air race it was actually a race of individuals between the Post Office Tower in London to the Empire State Building in New York. Each of the individuals or "Runners" had to use some form of air transport. With a number of different categories a ...

  5. Atlantic Telegraph Company - Wikipedia

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    Atlantic Telegraph Company. Great Eastern iron sailing steam ship, used to lay the transatlantic telegraph cable. The Atlantic Telegraph Company was a company formed on 6 November 1856 [1] to undertake and exploit a commercial telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean, the first such telecommunications link.

  6. LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin - Wikipedia

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    17,177. Total distance. 1.7 million km (1.06 million miles) LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin ( Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin 127) was a German passenger-carrying hydrogen -filled rigid airship that flew from 1928 to 1937. It offered the first commercial transatlantic passenger flight service. The ship was named after the German airship pioneer Ferdinand ...

  7. Guglielmo Marconi - Wikipedia

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    Biography Early years. Marconi was born as Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi in Palazzo Marescalchi in Bologna on 25 April 1874, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi (an Italian aristocratic landowner from Porretta Terme) and his Irish wife Annie Jameson (daughter of Andrew Jameson of Daphne Castle in County Wexford, Ireland, and granddaughter of John Jameson, the Scottish founder of whiskey ...

  8. First transcontinental telegraph - Wikipedia

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    The first transcontinental telegraph (completed October 24, 1861) was a line that connected the existing telegraph network in the eastern United States to a small network in California, by means of a link between Omaha, Nebraska and Carson City, Nevada, via Salt Lake City. It was a milestone in electrical engineering and in the formation of the ...

  9. Hibernia Networks - Wikipedia

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    Hibernia Networks, alternately known as Hibernia Atlantic, was a privately held, US-owned provider of telecommunication services. It operated global network routes on self-healing rings in North America, Europe and Asia including submarine communications cable systems in the North Atlantic Ocean which connected Canada, the United States, the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom and mainland ...

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