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To: thecodont; bigbob
You'll like this book:

I read it when it was first published. It is an amazing story of huge technological risk, massive capital investment, and triumph over adversity and failure to build the first transoceanic underwater cable linking Europe and North America.

I was unaware of the "battery wagons" mentioned in this article. I knew of the importance of telegraphy in the CW, but never thought about mobile telegraphy.

9 posted on 02/23/2013 10:33:08 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; thecodont; bigbob
The Victorian Internet is also a good read.
10 posted on 02/23/2013 10:45:10 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Have read one of the first act in WW1 was cutting Germany’s

Trans Atlantic cable,forcing them to use radio.


12 posted on 02/23/2013 11:07:50 PM PST by Harold Shea (RVN `70 - `71)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Thanks for the book recommendation.


20 posted on 02/24/2013 2:27:02 PM PST by thecodont
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